Chapter 865: Hitting a Wall
At the beginning of the game, he had a "draw" with the famous general Wang, and Changtong became famous, but he was not complacent, and he was still meticulously implementing the strategy of steady and steady.
Step-by-step began to recover the city occupied by the Yan army in Hebei, under the pressure of hundreds of thousands of troops, the Yan army almost did not have the strength to resist and most of them abandoned the city and fled.
However, he fought with the Yan army's partial division in the field a few times, although the Yan army was brave, but the Ming army's artillery fire was more fierce, and no one on either side got any big advantage.
But the Ming army still has the upper hand in general, and the strategic space of the Yan army is being eroded step by step, and the good news to Yingtian is passed one after another, and when it comes to April of the next year, the Yan army will only be left in Beiping and Zhigu.
Just when Chang Tong was thinking about which one to fight first, the Yan army suddenly withdrew from Zhigu, and all the Yan troops assembled on the road to Beiping, and Zhu Di also asked Chang Tong to send a woman's clothes.
It is obvious that Zhu Di is actively seeking a decisive battle, the Ming army has powerful artillery fire, and the city wall of Beiping can no longer protect him, and he has no way to retreat at this moment.
Chang Tong can't ask for this, after all, he can control more resources, and he will not suffer a loss in a head-on battle. Chang Tong sneered, and threw the women's clothes on the head of Yan Jun's messenger, "Ben Shuai borrowed flowers to offer Buddha to return this woman's clothes to him, you go back and tell Zhu Di to be restless, Ben Shuai will take the army to clean him up!" ”
Chang Tong said that he would do it, and immediately ordered the whole army to go north, and went straight to Zhu Di's garrison, but when he arrived at the place, he was dumbfounded, and he really didn't understand what Zhu Di was doing.
It was a vast plain, with several wide slopes, but it wasn't much higher, about five or six feet.
Originally, these slopes were also planted with wheat, but now they are vertical and horizontal, standing on the temporary wooden tower, it is faintly visible that there are countless Ming troops hidden in the ravines, most of them are holding shovels to shovel the soil outside, and pile out a thick mound outside, and use the shovel to dip the water to shoot the solid.
Chang Tong couldn't understand what Zhu Di was fooling about, could it be that he was afraid of digging a place for himself in advance?
He put down the binoculars and looked at Tang Ding beside him, "Uncle Tang, can you see clearly?" ”
Tang Ding also shook his head, "I don't understand, but this pit doesn't seem to be so simple, it looks a little chaotic, but in fact, it has its own layout, you see that the smoking northwest corner seems to be a place to bury the pot and make rice, the northeast corner seems to be a thatched house, there seems to be a hidden pit on the west side and a flag is inserted Eighty percent is the command post, and the artillery hidden in the slightly wide pit over there is covered with barrels......
"Uncle Tang is really an expert, he can see the door at once, and the little nephew can also see the doorway, please refer to the uncle together!" Chang Tong read the beard under his chin, "Yan is not as good as our army's artillery, and the battle with our army is a loss in firearms, this is because I am afraid and prepare to hide in the pit to avoid shells." ”
"The last general also thinks the same, and I am not sure that this shallow tunnel will be better than the high city wall?"
"Whether it's good or not, try it and you'll know!" Chang Tong waved his hand and ordered loudly below: "Command all arms to fight!" ”
The results of the test were beyond the expectations of Chang Tong and Tang Ding, when the shells rained down, the smoke and dust almost covered the position of the Yan army, but those Yan troops were like Xiao Qiang who could not be killed, still jumping around, constantly firing shells to fight back, bombarding the artillery positions of the Ming army.
The artillery battle lasted for a long time, but it didn't do anything to the Yan army, but the Ming army lost a lot of precious artillery, artillery, and ammunition. Chang Tong then switched to using foot soldiers to charge the formation.
Under the horizontal knife of the supervising team, the Ming soldiers rushed to the position of the Yan army with a musket with bayonets, and there was a burst of fried beans on the position of the Yan army, and the naked eye could see that the fiery red points of light were intertwined into a dense fire net, shooting into their bodies, bursting out of dazzling blood flowers, like wheat that was blown down by the wind and could no longer stand up.
Why not crawl forward? This is not to blame them all for blaming Ma Du, he did not teach when he trained the first batch of modern Shenji Battalion soldiers in Hongdu. One is because the time is in a hurry, and the other is that it is not needed, and he dares to lie on the ground without being injured on the battlefield, and he is afraid that he will be beheaded immediately because of cowardice.
When it was needed now, the Ming army couldn't react, but Zhu Di was the first to realize that this was a war that was very different from before, and took the lead in changing his strategy, so now he took advantage of it.
Five days! The Ming army attacked for a full five days, and it can be described as a heavy loss, with nearly 30,000 elite foot soldiers killed and wounded, and the damage on the Yan army's side cannot be counted, and it is estimated that it is less than two percent of them.
The Ming army finally understood the power of this position, these vertical and horizontal ravines are more difficult to cross than the towering city walls, and several positions of the Ming army are not far from each other's horns, and they can be supported by fire at any time, and it is not easy to break any position.
Chang Tong and his generals searched their stomachs together, tried all kinds of methods, and it was not easy to flood and attack, but in the end, Tang Ding came up with a good idea.
The Yan army can dig why the Ming army can't dig, the Ming army is not close to digging, and the cover of the trench continues to advance, dividing and encircling the position of the Yan army.
As long as he dug a few zhang away from the Ming army's position and threw grenades into the trench of the Yan army's position from all directions, and then there would be good fruits of the Yan army to eat, this was definitely a good idea, and Li Yunlong would definitely feel very familiar.
Hundreds of thousands of troops were not given in vain, the plan of the Ming army was carried out smoothly, and the Yan army seemed helpless by constantly approaching the position of the Yan army through the excavation.
Just when everyone thought that it was about to be done, the Ming army, which had been staying in the trench, suddenly rushed out on all fronts, rushed directly into the trenches dug by the Ming army, fought with the Ming army with shovels, or stood on the edge of the trench and threw grenades into it.
These hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were originally picked by Zhu Xiongying, and in the previous hard battle, most of the elite infantry casualties were lost. In the face of the wolf-like Yan army, the Ming army in the trench was powerless to resist, and it was simply a one-sided massacre.
The Yan army followed the trench dug by the Ming army until it reached the gate of the Ming army's camp, and then returned to its position along the trench.
The confident plan went bankrupt, so that Chang Tong, who had always been calm, jumped to his feet and scolded his mother, and the generals surrounded him to comfort him.
Tang Ding said: "Yan Rebellion's tactics are indeed tricky, now our army has suffered heavy losses and low morale, and it is not easy to continue the attack, it is best to retreat and repair and reorganize morale, and think of another way to break Yan Rebellion's tactics!" The other generals also felt that what Tang Ding said was reasonable, and they echoed it.
Hearing Tang Ding say this, Chang Tong, who had calmed down a little, exploded again, slapped the table and shouted: "What! You called Ben Shuai to retire? No way! Our army has losses and Yan Shun also has it, and when I saw Yan Shun's soldiers retreating just now, I looked for food and ammunition from the corpses of our soldiers. They don't have any supplies these days, and they're running out of ammunition. As long as you hold on a little longer, you will definitely be able to break through the enemy formation! Those who dare to retreat will be beheaded! ”
Boom...... Suddenly there was a burst of thunder overhead, and I don't know when the sky was already full of dark clouds.