Chapter Eighty-Seven: Li Wei's army gallops to the aid of the Ottoman army

In fact, it is impossible to build a perfect position in a short period of time, and the cavalry division commander knows this. Originally, those Mongolian cavalry were unwilling to participate in the construction of fortifications, they still wanted to ride horses to kill, but the cavalry division commander said to a Mongolian thousand households who led the team: "Now the military situation is urgent, if you don't carry out my orders, the military law will be engaged after the war!" ”

Although the Mongols were fierce and barbaric, their military discipline was very strict, which was one of the reasons why they swept the world. The Mongol cavalry immediately joined the logging work, and the cut trees were brought back by horses. In a hurry, it was only necessary to set up some temporary rejection horses, and it was too late to even make rejection horses, so they were erected on the hillside, and the entire hillside was surrounded into a simple position. The purpose of these logs was to delay the onslaught of the cavalry and give an officer and an officer more opportunities to shoot.

Although the soldiers of Yaogang did not take their opponents seriously at all, especially knowing that Li Wei and his army had already come up from behind, they did not have the slightest intention of being afraid. However, they did not dare to be vague about the placement of their positions, they did not know that they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops. Although they numbered 20,000 men, only one cavalry division was the Yaogang cavalry, and the remaining Mongol cavalry was about the same strength as the Ottoman cavalry. If a position is set up against the Ottoman cavalry, in fact, only this cavalry division can work. Only when a counterattack is launched can the Mongol cavalry play a better role.

The Ottoman commander also knew that the enemy in front of him must be dealt with as soon as possible, and he knew that if he did not fight quickly, the army behind the Ming Dynasty would soon come over, in that case, instead of destroying the enemy, he would be eliminated by the enemy. But the clever Ottoman commanders, who knew that their actions had long been clearly seen by the planes in the sky, and the feints they made could not hide from the Ming Dynasty army at all. This is also because the technological gap between the two armies is too great, and they simply cannot imagine that the occasional voice from the sky is a deadly threat.

When the Ottoman army completed the siege and was ready to attack, they did not expect that these cavalry, who were watching their jokes with a big grin, seemed to know that they were going to be surrounded, and had already built a defensive line along the mountain, which made the Ottoman commander who commanded the siege nervous, and the original surprise attack had now turned into a strong attack. However, in any case, the opponent's 10,000 or 20,000 people fell into the encirclement of his more than 300,000 people, and no matter how the opponent discovered his combat intentions, he must immediately launch an attack and quickly resolve the battle before the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty army here can begin to arrange positions for defense, and it is likely that the army behind the Ming Dynasty has already received the news, and may be rushing here.

By this time, the intentions of both sides were almost transparent.

The Ottoman army charged almost simultaneously from the east, west, north, and south to the hill where the Yaogang Cavalry Division was stationed. Since this generation is all plains, the hill where the Yaogang Cavalry Division is stationed is also a large mound, and the slope is not very steep. When the Ottoman army attacked, they rode up their hills.

The Ottoman cavalry also rushed in, without cannons, and their heavy weapons were heavy arrows, using large crossbows wound by several people, and the heavy arrows fired by the cavalry could shoot through the armored horses and cavalry together.

The armament of the Ottoman army was well known to the Ottoman army. In the fortifications on the hill, the officers and men of the Yaogang army hid in the trenches to prevent bows and arrows and artillery shelling. The Mongol cavalry, even men and horses, hid behind wooden platoons to protect against enemy bows and artillery.

Although the Ottoman heavy cavalry could not break into a phalanx in the mountains, they still rushed to the front, behind them were the crossbowmen, and then the elite musketeers of the Ottoman Empire.

Since the defenders of the kiln post were condescending, they would put the wooden obstacles about fifty meters away from the front of the formation, because the enemy cavalry was not easy to rush uphill, and they could also give full play to their firepower advantage at close range. This is the courage of the masters, and the officers and men of the kiln gang are particularly confident in their weapons.

The Ottoman army marched in formation to the defenders of the kiln hill in the deafening drums, they stopped in front of the barrier of the kiln hillmen, and suddenly the crossbowmen began to wield, and the heavy arrows fired by the bows and crossbows rained down on the kiln gang positions, and then the heavy cavalry in front continued to move forward, and the musketeers behind the crossbowmen crossed the crossbowmen and attacked.

The Ottoman commander also knew that the horses could not run, and the heavy cavalry could not rush. They use the advantage of being outnumbered to try to overwhelm their opponents with one attack. Although the Ottoman army had a numerical advantage of more than 300,000 men, the position of the defenders of Yaogang was not large, and no matter how many people attacked, they could not spread. When attacking, he had to use a continuous offensive method to give full play to his numerical advantage.

Their idea was also good, that is, to use heavy cavalry as a cover to cover the musketeers to rush to the position and fight with the Ming Dynasty army.

However, their understanding of the Kiln Gang army was too lacking. Also, if they had a clearer understanding of the Yaogang army, there would have been no stupid actions to surround the Yaogang people.

Just when the heavy cavalry approached the obstacle such as the rejection of the horse, they wanted to pick the rejection horse with their spears and threw a rope with a hook to drag the obstacle away. The kiln man opened fire.

This is the sound of nearly 10,000 guns firing continuously, like a tide, light and heavy machine guns, rifles at the same time spewing out anger, such an earth-shattering sound, the kiln gang officers and soldiers are used to it, but the Ottoman army officers and soldiers are still the first time to hear, with this terrifying sound, the front heavy cavalry was knocked off their horses one by one, and the war horses were also knocked down one by one. The iron armor on their bodies could not stop the bullets fired by automatic firearms.

However, the Ottoman army, which had strict military discipline, was suddenly attacked by the kiln gangsters, and quickly calmed down from the shock and panic, and continued to drive the army forward to attack.

For a while, the cavalry that kept attacking was constantly knocked down, and the cavalry behind continued to come up, and then they were hit, forming a short stalemate, but under the corpse mountain in front of the Yaogang people, black and red blood flowed down the hillside. Finally, the cavalry attacking by the Ottoman Empire had difficulty crossing the corpse mountain and had to retreat.

In this attack, at least tens of thousands of cavalry of the Ottoman Empire fell in front of the battle, especially their elite heavy cavalry who died. The Ottoman commander understood that the idea of organizing an army to try to completely annihilate the lone army of the Ming Dynasty was too naïve, and he had thought that the weapons of the Ming Dynasty army would be very powerful, but he did not expect that it would be so powerful.

The retreating Ottoman officers and soldiers summed up the reasons for the defeat, they knew that the armor of the heavy cavalry could not stop the bullets fired by the Ming Dynasty army at all, and the heavy cavalry was slow to move and charge at a low speed, so it was easy to be killed before they could reach the Ming Dynasty army. Therefore, when the battle is renewed, they will send out light cavalry for a quick assault.

The Ottoman commander was also battle-hardened and rose to the top with countless military exploits, and at this time, he knew very well that he had to destroy the enemy in front of him before they could withdraw, otherwise an opponent with such strong firepower would launch a counterattack when his army retreated, and his army would not be able to stop it at all, and the result would be a complete rout. He also knew that there was not much time left for him, and the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty must be on the way at this time.

Before there was time to prepare more fully, the second attack began again, this time with the light cavalry in front, but in front was a row of shield bearers, although the shields could not block the bullets of the Ming Dynasty army, but they could still resist the bows and arrows shot down by the Mongols.

This attack began again to the beat of drums. When the Ottoman attacking cavalry, under the cover of a dense rain of arrows fired by the crossbowmen, came to the front of the barrier set up by the kiln gangsters, the shieldmen gave way, and the light cavalry began to accelerate, because the horses and soldiers' corpses in front of them were piled up, and they had to speed up to rush over, and at the same time, in order to reduce the chance of being hit by bullets, they also had to rush over quickly, cutting off the opponent's head with the knife in their hands.

In this attack, the Ottoman army replaced the heavy cavalry with light cavalry, and the cavalry division commander and staff officers saw it clearly with binoculars. The division commander knew that the firepower of automatic weapons was powerful, but the ammunition consumed was too fast, and this time he ordered to minimize the consumption of ammunition, and when he saw that the enemy had changed to light cavalry, he immediately ordered all the Mongolian cavalry to participate in the battle, and they had to accept the command and shoot at the enemy with bows and arrows. Within fifty meters, bows and arrows could still pose a great threat to the Ottoman army.

As soon as the Ottoman light cavalry rushed to Roshan, the Mongol cavalry fired a dense rain of arrows. These bows and arrows were not harmful to heavy cavalry, but they were effective against light cavalry that had not established themselves, and many Ottoman cavalry were shot off their horses because they could not dodge. However, the gunfire at the kiln did not go off, and the Ottoman army felt that the opportunity had come, and he thought that the Ming soldiers might have run out of bullets. The cavalry behind, as well as the musketeers, also rushed over with shouts. As a result, the guns of the Ming Dynasty army rang out again, although not as dense as last time, but with greater accuracy. The Ottoman officers and soldiers who attacked in front fell in rows, and they rushed forward one after another, and the Ottoman Empire just wanted to use the tactics of the sea of people to drown the Ming Dynasty army. But suddenly, behind the position of the Ming Dynasty army, the sound of "dong dong dong" came, followed by the sound of "squeak" whistle broke through the air, and then artillery shells fell behind the charging team, in the middle of the dense Ottoman army. In such a dense team, every shell that explodes can kill or even wound more than a dozen or even 20 people.

Although the shells were not very dense, the continuous "squeak" and strange screams exploded one after another, making it impossible for the attacking team to continue behind. The cavalry that did not die in front also withdrew.

The commander of the Ottoman army was already somewhat desperate at this time. He knew that the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty army were approaching at this time, and he made a decision to reorganize the attack, as long as there was one person in the Ottoman army, the charge could not be stopped, he heard it, this attack, the gunfire of the Ming Dynasty army was not as dense as the last time, and they also let more Mongolian soldiers shoot at the attacking cavalry with bows and arrows to show that the ammunition of the Ming Dynasty army was running out. However, he also made a decision to order the remaining heavy cavalry of the Janichaean Guards and ten musketeers to withdraw to the pontoon bridge to cover the crossing of the river. In fact, it was this commander who left some elite troops for the Ottoman Empire in the event of an accident.

The Ottoman commander still underestimated the speed of the Ming army's advance. They had come up from the north and south. The situation on the battlefield, Li Wei and Li Jing, can be completely reconnoitred by aircraft in the air. Li Wei's wheeled armored corps, as well as the four-wheeled automobile corps, and two cavalry divisions, did not stop for a moment after receiving the order to rush to help, and accelerated towards the war zone. The galloping army was divided into two routes, north and south, and the wheeled armored corps and the four-wheeled automobile corps were mixed. The northern route was in charge of the wheeled armored corps, and they transferred a battalion of wheeled armored vehicles to the southern route. The South Road was in charge of the four-wheeled car soldiers, who transferred a four-wheeled car barracks to the North Road.

Because wheeled six-wheel-drive armored vehicles had a 65-millimeter gun on them, transferring them to a wheeled vehicle corps would give them more firepower. The four-wheeled vehicle battalion reached the northern road, and their flexibility, as well as their vehicle-mounted weapons, also made up for their lack of mobility. Two cavalry divisions, one each assigned to the north and south.

Strangely, the commander of the cavalry division had to listen to the command of two regiment commanders. However, the two division commanders, who are usually bullish and coaxing, were respectful when they saw the two regiment commanders, because the military ranks of the two regiment commanders were much higher than them. These two regiment commanders were not ordinary regiment commanders, and they were drawn from the whole army to participate in the experiments of armored divisions.

The two-way mechanized group ran wildly all the way on the hilly steppe, and the cavalry barely kept up with them. The road to the march, the planes have almost reconnoitred, where there are small river ditches, where there are small hills, the army is clear, the speed of the march is very fast. They reached the Dnieper almost at the same time. In this way, the two armies surrounded them from the perimeter of the Ottoman army of the Yaogang cavalry division and the Mongol cavalry.

The commander of the cavalry division who was surrounded was naturally very happy when he got the news that the reinforcements had arrived, but after two battles, they had consumed too much ammunition. Seeing that the Ottoman Empire had organized an army at the foot of the mountain and immediately started attacking again, the division commander asked Li Wei if he could airdrop some ammunition, and he said that as long as the ammunition was sufficient, it would be no problem to hold it for as long as it was sufficient. However, if the ammunition ran out, they would not be able to sustain much time if they fought with the Ottoman army with their knives. There were simply too many Ottoman troops.

Li Wei did not agree to use the air force to give them air conditioning and supplies, he did not want to expose his army's ability, but told him that the reinforcements would attack behind the Ottoman army immediately, and asked them to hold on for a little longer.

The commander of the Ottoman army, who knew that there was not much time, although he did not find himself surrounded by counter-surrounding, he immediately commanded the army to launch a final attack, and the order was to attack without stopping.

It was not for nothing that the Ottoman army swept the world. They are well-trained, have strict military discipline, are very well organized, and all departments on the wide battlefield are coordinated and not chaotic at all. In the sound of war drums, the Ottoman officers and soldiers knew that this was a decisive battle, and they were not afraid of death one by one, shouting trumpets to attack.

The defenders also saw that this time the Ottoman army attacked differently from the previous two times, and they could see the front and not see how long the back was. The officers and soldiers knew that this was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's desperate efforts.

The soldiers of the Yaogang army did not dare to waste bullets this time, and the hit rate was much higher, and even the bows and arrows fired by the Mongolian cavalry were aimed and fired again. Although the troops in front of the Ottoman army were killed, the soldiers behind did not hesitate and continued to attack, and the attacking ranks continued in a steady stream. This put a great deal of pressure on the defenders, who were constantly depleting ammunition.

At this critical juncture, a dense burst of artillery fire rang out behind the Ottoman army, as well as gunfire.

Even when the situation was not good, the Ottoman commander ordered the attacking army to speed up his attack, and he was to attack the army in the rear to kill the enemy in the encirclement, and then turn back to deal with the reinforcements.

At the moment of life and death, the Ottoman army attacked the mountain even more desperately. The defenders heard the gunfire of reinforcements from outside, and they didn't care about saving bullets, and a dense rain of bullets was fired at the Ottoman officers and soldiers who rushed over.

The mountain of corpses continued to grow higher in front of him, and the sea of blood flowed in front of him.

The commander of the defending division finally saw through the binoculars, the muzzles of the six-wheeled armored vehicles were constantly spewing flames and four-wheeled vehicles, lined up in horizontal formations, followed by cavalry, pressed over. They were unstoppable, and they tried everything to stop their enemies, blowing up flesh and blood, and a dense rain of bullets, knocking the cavalry and infantry into position.

Heavy machine guns on six-wheeled armored combat vehicles and four-wheeled vehicles rained down on bullets, turning a group of cavalry that organized a counter-charge into a cloud of flesh. The army attacking the hill in front of it was really unable to withstand the defeat and retreated.

The commander of the Ottoman Empire, knowing that at the last moment, he saw the powerful steel army of the Ming Dynasty, as a soldier, there was still a trace of relief in his heart, and at the last time, it was a blessing to see the wonders on the battlefield.

The road in the direction of the pontoon bridge had already been blocked, and the officers of the Janichaean Guards, by order of the commander, in this case, cut the ropes of the pontoon bridge and destroy the pontoon bridge in order to prevent the Ming army from pursuing the river.

The Ottoman commander calmly organized the cavalry and charged in the direction of the enemy's weakness to the east, trying to fight a way out from there. But in any direction, some armored vehicles emitting black smoke also appeared. Behind the armored cars and cars, were the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty army. The opponent's artillery fire was very accurate, and where there was a dense crowd, the shells would fall there. However, as the enemy outside surrounded and compressed closer and closer, the soldiers in the encirclement became denser. Every shell that falls can kill more than a dozen people. The cavalry divisions, which were surrounded by the Ottoman army, also began to shoot them **** at the dense crowd of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman commander knew that if the battle continued, more people would die, so he ordered that the officers and soldiers could lay down their arms and surrender. He himself came to a rock, drew his sword, and killed himself by swinging it.

This is the end of the battle. Unfortunately, because it was already dark, in the end, tens of thousands of Ottoman officers and soldiers took advantage of the chaos to escape.

After a brief interrogation of the officers of the Ottoman army, Li Wei and the others knew that the Ottoman army they had eliminated this time totaled more than 300,000 people.

Due to the time difference, it was dark on Li Wei's side, and it was already midnight on the Yaogang side, but several officials in the Yaogang, as well as Emperor Chongzhen, who wanted to hear the news, were all in the command center.

They received a telegram from Li Wei, and Ouyang He ordered Liu Yun to send a telegram to General Ningde immediately.

Chen Yufeng said: "In this way, it will be easier for General Ningde and them to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire!" ”