Chapter 354: Victory in the First Battle
Zhang Chun is not an ordinary person, he will fight, dare to fight, not afraid of death, and judge the situation.
After analyzing the strength of the two sides, he believed that the Houjin army did not eat the appetite of his group in one go, so he adopted the stupid method of fighting a dumb battle in a hard village and slowly approached Dalinghe City.
The cavalry of Jiannu and Tartar took the lead and killed more than 100 Ming cavalry, and saw that the defeated hundreds of cavalry fled into the camp formed by the Ming army with temporary carts.
Who knew that those simple carts were indeed the natural enemies of the cavalry, and the cavalry of the Houjin Army who rushed into battle was attacked by a row of bird guns and dozens of guns, and lost more than 40 horsemen, everyone knew that it was powerful, and immediately opened a safe distance from the Ming army.
Zhang Chun can be said to have won the first battle, and he was overjoyed, and ordered the whole army to continue to advance, and ordered the cavalry to follow the chariot formation, and temporarily gave up the front to investigate.
Since the Ming army was arranged in a monolithic position, so there were limited losses along the way, and Jiannu did not attempt to launch a large-scale attack, but prepared to fight the Ming army outside the fortifications of Dalinghe City.
Fighting a war pays attention to the right time, the right place, and the right people.
The Houjin army has a camp to rely on, and whether it is waiting for work or on the battlefield that it is familiar with, it should be one of the elements of the war of taking advantage of the location.
At present, there is not much difference in the morale of the two warring sides, Zhang Chunbu's Ming army was encouraged by the news of a complete victory in the southern Liaoning battlefield, and at this time the war spirit was full of spirit, and the Jiannu people saw that the Ming army really entered the encirclement and rubbed their fists one by one.
Zhang Chun's purpose here was to enter Dalinghe City, he knew very well that the closer he got to the destination, the more dangerous it would be, Jiannu would not easily let his men and horses pass through the fortified area, and he issued an order that the whole army would rely on the chariot to form a formation and attack in turn.
This kind of tactics is flat and stable, it is the regular arrangement of the Ming army's chariots to deal with the light cavalry, that is, to take a part of the chariots to stand firm after the formation, and then the chariots of the second echelon cross the men and horses that have been arrayed to stop advancing for a distance, and wait for the third echelon to go to the front.
In this way, the chariot formations advanced in turn, alternately covering and watching each other, and it was basically difficult for the enemy's cavalry to find the position of the lower position to fight such a camp.
Today, Zhang Chun divided more than 50,000 men and horses into two army formations and marched in turns, and the Houjin army suffered a big loss as soon as it came up, and the 20,000 or 30,000 Ming army had 1,000 chariots, which meant that there were 3,000 bird guns that could be fired, as well as firearms such as guns, swarms of bees, divine fire flying crows, and thunderbolt guns to assist in shooting.
More than 3,000 cavalrymen with the blue banner and blue banner who tried in vain to charge the formation were attacked by firearms, and they could not withstand it, so they lost four or five hundred horsemen and retreated in a hurry.
The second army formation of the Ming army took the opportunity to advance into a three-mile array, and the first army formation engaged in the battle was already cheering and thundering at this time, because they had obtained nearly 500 pieces, including Jiannu generals of the level of Jiala Ezhen, Niu Lu Ezhen, Bashiku, and Bayala saw dozens of waist cards.
After fighting again and winning again, the commander of the Ming army, Zhang Chun, was inexplicably excited, and Wu Xiang, Song Wei, Jiang Xin and other generals were a little carried away, they felt that Jiannu did not seem to be difficult to deal with.
The First Army was immediately emboldened as it advanced again, and when they crossed the Second Army, which had been defended, they were not blocked, and the camp of Jiannu was already close at hand.
Zhang Chun personally led the first army formation, the banner of the Chinese army waved, nearly 30,000 horses and horses understood the flag, the whole army attacked and advanced, and the Ming army struggled forward like a chicken blood in an instant, with birds and guns raised and arrows flying.
Seeing that there was trouble when they were able to enter the camp of the Houjin army, the big chariot could not advance, and a criss-crossing ravine appeared on the ground, which was just wide enough to leap and fill in the cart.
There was no deliberate water in the ditch, the depth was more than one zhang, the slope was very steep, and people would never be able to climb up in a hurry, but it was only for the direction of Dalinghe City in the east, and the slope in the direction of the Ming army in the south was deliberately built to allow the infantry to run quickly.
The Ming army suffered a big loss due to the unfamiliar terrain, and more than 100 chariots went down to the ditch and suddenly found that they could not see anything, because the dirt slope in front of them was more than a battle, unless the tall Ming army stood on the top of the chariot to be able to show their heads and see ahead.
It's a pity that the chariot of the Ming army is not designed to stand on the roof, this chariot is simple in structure, in order to save cost and reduce weight, it is relatively thin, mainly to resist the bow and arrow shooting of Jiannu.
When the coachman and all the chariot bearers hurriedly left the chariot and were about to turn back, thousands of Jiannu with iron shields rushed from nowhere.
The southern line of the Daling River was garrisoned by Mang Gurtai, one of the four major beylers, and he did not expect that the Ming army would actually choose his defense area for the main attack.
The temperamental Mang Gurtai had a perverse personality, and he was originally opposed to attacking this Dalinghe City, which was destined to not get gold and silver treasures, and was wandered by the Ming army for more than two months, and was already on the verge of breaking out.
Originally, the north and west should be the most vulnerable to the attack of the Ming army, for this reason, the red gangsters set up two yellow flags and two white flags with strong combat effectiveness, who knows that it was the blue flag and the blue flag led by Mang Gurtai and Derge class who took the first punch of the Ming army.
Mang Gurtai, who had lost hundreds of elites, finally broke out, and he angrily came to the big tent theory of the Chinese army, thinking that the two yellow flags and the two white flags knew that the breakthrough direction of the Ming army was south, but they chose to sit idly by, resulting in hundreds of soldiers in the blue flag losing their lives in vain.
The red gangster was angry that the blue flag did not complete the plan to withstand the attack of the Ming army, and retreated privately, almost ruining the overall plan.
He angrily reprimanded: "Your troops retreated without permission against the order, what crime should you be guilty of? ”
Mang Gurtai was not afraid of the red gangsters at all, he said: "Zhenglan Qierlang fought bravely, but the Ming army has more than 50,000 people, and the men and horses led by Ben Beile can win it, so what's wrong with avoiding the edge for the time being." ”
The red gang shouted: "I have ordered five times to emphasize that in order to leave enough time for the arrangement of Wuzhen Chaoha, when the Ming army comes to attack, the men and horses who take the lead in the battle must fight for three hours, how long has the Erbu held out?" ”
Mang Gurtai has been in battle for a long time and knows that if the Blue Banner Rangers start to attack the Ming army, even if it is the time to engage the army, it can meet the conditions for retreating for three hours, but it can't be too serious.
He quibbled: "It took three hours for the men and horses of the headquarters to retreat, which bastard framed Ben Baylor?" ”
The red guy sneered and said: "If the informant frames you, I should punish the informant for the crime of bullying the king, if it is true, how can the soldiers of your army be innocent?" You deserve to be guilty of one more degree! ”