Chapter 300: Collapse
Before the sun set, the troops in charge of controlling the Suzhou artillery received an order, and they stopped the Suzhou artillery, which had been roaring all afternoon, and began to adjust the bombardment target. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time, because it was expected that the Liang army would most likely come out of the camp to launch a counterattack against the Huainan army after the sun set, they set their target in the open space in front of the enemy camp.
At the same time, a thousand flowering shells brought with them on the expedition will also be put into service.
There are a total of 1,000 flowering bombs brought over this time, which looks like a lot of them, but these 1,000 are not only used to deal with Li Si'an, but also to deal with Kang Huaizhen, and even continue to be used against Zhu Quanzhong later, so if you count it, 1,000 is not too much.
And to maximize the role of this trump card, the best way is naturally to use it at a critical time.
Soon, the sun had completely set, and the Huainan army was also refreshed and ready for tonight's battle.
"Your Highness, there is a large amount of wolf smoke in the enemy camp, it should be to get in touch with Kang Huaizhen!" At this time, the sharp-eyed Diao Yanneng shouted, and Yang Wu and other generals looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, as he said, a thick smoke rose into the sky, and it could be seen from a long distance.
Then, a thick smoke also rose from Kang Huaizhen's camp, which seemed to respond to Li Si'an.
"It seems that the Liang army is about to take action, and all departments should be vigilant and ready to attack at any time!" Yang Wu ordered in a deep voice.
After a while, with a war drum, Li Si'an's troops took the lead in attacking, and the remaining 20,000 troops came out of the camp in turn, preparing to line up outside the camp first, and then attack the Huainan army.
However, at this moment, I saw that three rockets were launched in front of the Huainan Army, and suddenly, the thirty Suzhou guns that had received the order began to launch according to the target set before.
And this time, what was fired from the Suzhou cannon was no longer the previous stone bullet or mud bomb, but a terrifying weapon that the soldiers of the Liang army had never seen.
In order to ensure the lethality as much as possible, the Huainan Army's flowering bomb was filled with a full ten catties of gunpowder, wrapped in cloth, and a large number of stones were added to it, when the flowering bomb exploded, these splashed stones would cause huge damage to the enemy.
Of course, a flowering bullet contains ten catties of gunpowder, and a thousand flowering shells require 10,000 catties of gunpowder, which is almost half of the gunpowder in the Huainan Army's inventory today; And this is what Huainan has only accumulated in the past few years, so it must be saved.
At this time, thirty flowering shells were ignited and fired with Suzhou cannons, smashing into the Liang army that was coming out of the camp.
The soldiers of the Liang army obviously did not expect to be bombarded by Suzhou artillery as soon as they came out.
What made them even more panicked was that the "stone bullets" thrown by the enemy this time would not only kill a large number of people when they landed, but also emit a flash of fire in a shocking bang, and then ......
Then the entire Liang army was completely stunned.
Because the Liang army had just left the camp and had not yet had time to expand, the soldiers were lined up very densely, which created an excellent target for the Huainan army's flowering bombs.
In the first round of bombardment alone, except for one dumb fire bomb and two that exploded in advance in the air, the remaining 27 flowering shells hit at least 25 of them, killing and wounding hundreds of Liang troops in an instant.
"Oh no, it's the gods who are angry..."
"The Huainan Army has received the help of the gods, everyone flee quickly!"
At the beginning of the Battle of Huzhou, in the face of the sudden grenade used by the defenders of Huzhou, the two Zhejiang armies regarded this mysterious weapon that could emit lightning and thunder as the wrath of the gods; And now the reaction of the Liang army is no different from that of the two Zhejiang armies.
For a while, the soldiers of the Liang Army, who were bombarded by the flowering shells, immediately blew up the pot, and many soldiers turned around and wanted to return to the camp.
At the same time, the Liang army in the camp had not yet figured out what was going on in Chu, and they were still preparing to go out of the camp to engage the Huainan army under the urging of their respective generals.
As a result, one side wanted to go out, but the other side wanted to return to the camp, and for a time the Liang army attacked each other, the formation was chaotic, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers.
"Drum attack! Drum Attack! The whole army is on the offensive! Seeing such a good offensive opportunity, Yang Wu naturally will not give up.
And Mi Zhicheng, Wang Juan and other generals at the forefront gave the order to charge as soon as the war drums sounded.
"Boom!" After this time, the second round of grenade bombardment exploded again in the Liang army's camp, and the Liang army, which was already in chaos, completely collapsed at this moment.
The Liang army, who was still in the camp before, also knew what was going on at this time, the kind of power that only ghosts and gods should have, and at this moment they broke their resistance heart.
"Run! Escape as far away as possible! This was the only thought in the minds of every Liang soldier present.
At this moment, whether it is those veterans who have fought for many years and have extremely rich combat experience, or those brave warriors who claim to be not afraid of death, they all chose to flee at this moment.
Inside the camp, seeing the complete collapse of the army, Li Si'an's eyes were split, but there was nothing he could do.
"We must break through as soon as possible, and continue to stay in the camp just waiting for death!" In an instant, Li Si'an figured out his situation, and ordered the more than 3,000 people under his command to stop worrying about launching a counterattack against the enemy to destroy the enemy's Suzhou artillery, and let them immediately break through and go to Kang Huaizhen's camp.
"Brothers, rush out with me......" Under the personal leadership of Li Si'an, in the desire to survive. With the support of Wang, these more than 3,000 people burst out with the last courage and began to break through.
Seeing that the Liang army had completely collapsed in such a short period of time, whether it was Yang Wu or other generals, it was a little hard to believe for a while, is this still the Liang army that once swept the Quartet? Defeated by them so easily?
But then, they reacted again, and the fact was that the enemy army had indeed collapsed.
At this time, the sun has just set, and the sky has not yet darkened, which is the most suitable for encircling and chasing the enemy army; The Huainan army had already eaten and rested before, and their physical strength was sufficient, and a big victory was just around the corner, so the morale of the Huainan army was greatly boosted, and they rushed to the Liang army.
"Your Highness, there should be the last formed troops of the enemy army, defeat them, and Li Si'an's troops will be completely wiped out!"
At this time, Zhu Jin noticed that there was still an army in the Liang army that maintained a relatively complete structure, and immediately reminded Yang Wu of it.
However, at this time, due to the obstruction of the rout of the Liang army, the Huainan army was unable to attack the enemy army of 3,000 people for a while, and could only let them break through to Kang Huaizhen's camp.
"Your Highness, do you want to let the cavalry attack, with the speed of the cavalry, even if you take a detour, it must be enough to catch up with the enemy." Zhu Jin suggested.
Yang Wu shook his head after only a thought: "No need, the cavalry must stay to protect the Suzhou artillery, the more this kind of big victory, the more cautious our army must be." The Suzhou artillery is the key to our army's next victory over the enemy, as long as these 30 Suzhou artillery do not have problems, even if these 3,000 enemy troops escape to Kang Huaizhen's camp, it doesn't matter. As for the task of intercepting them, if our side fails to intercept them, won't there be Wang Maozhang? ”
At this time, Yang Wu didn't want to lose a big one, the time when Qian Biao was defeated by the Huainan cavalry in Deqing, it was because he lost his vigilance after the victory of the two Zhejiang armies, and Yang Wu didn't want to make the same mistake.
If the cavalry in charge of the garrison is sent out, so that there is a problem with the thirty Suzhou guns, then Yang Wu will regret it next.
In the distance, Kang Huaizhen was leading his subordinates out of the camp to fight Wang Maozhang, however, as soon as he came out of the camp, he heard a thunderous sound in the distance, and then saw Li Si'an's troops suddenly fall into chaos, and then completely collapsed under the Huainan army's attack.
"What happened? What does Li Si'an eat? Why is there a sudden chaos in the whole army? All this happened too quickly and suddenly, and Kang Huaizhen was not prepared at all, which shocked him.
Li Si'an has collapsed, can he rely on his battalion alone to hold out until Zhu Quanzhong arrives?
What's more, until now, he hadn't figured out what caused the Liang army to collapse in an instant, and if the Huainan army suddenly came like this when dealing with him next, he shuddered a little when he thought about it.
"Yuan Xiangxian, you lead 5,000 people to stay, you must contain Wang Maozhang, you will go to pick up Li Si'an, you must find out what happened!" Without the slightest hesitation, Kang Huaizhen changed the previously determined containment task to a response.
"The last will obey! The end will guarantee the completion of the mission! Yuan Xiang knew that the situation was urgent, so he immediately expressed his position.
"Brothers, come with me..."Yuan Xiang shouted first, and took the lead to kill Wang Maozhang's department. And Kang Huaizhen led the rest of the soldiers and horses to meet Li Si'an.
Outside the camp, seeing Kang Huaizhen's actions, Wang Maozhang's heart moved, and he ordered: "Order, get out of the way, let them pass!" ”
Deputy General Zhu Qianyou was surprised: "General, the order His Highness gave us is to contain Kang Huaizhen, and let them go without stopping them at all, this..."
"Otherwise, Li Si'an has completely collapsed, if our army desperately blocks at this time, Kang Huaizhen will see that he will not be able to break through, and he will inevitably return to the camp to hold on. Even if our army has flowering shells, it will take a lot of effort to break through their camp. On the other hand, if Kang Huaizhen is let go at this time, it will just wipe them out together! Wang Maozhang said with a smile.
"The general means that we take their camp first, so that they have no way out?" Zhang Chong's eyes lit up and he suddenly woke up.
"Yes, Kang Huaizhen went out of the camp lightly, his grain, grass and baggage are all in the camp, let's break through their camp first, cut off their retreat, and then use the flowering bomb to bombard, it will be Sun Wu's resurrection, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover the defeat!"