Chapter 269: Resist to the Death
I saw that there were about 300 Manchurian cavalry in front, all the horses were wearing horse armor, and the knights on horseback were wearing two layers of three-layer armor one by one, and they were now shouting and rushing over. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At the same time, Tartar cavalry appeared on the flanks, now massing, ready to charge at any moment.
Wang Zhibang was shocked, and on the one hand, he sent an envoy to Guo Chonglie's regiment to the rear base camp to ask for help, and on the other hand, regardless of the danger of exploding, he continued to use the Franco cannon to fire continuously in the direction of the Tartar cavalry's assembly.
But in the face of more than 2,000 Tartar cavalry, how could more than 2,000 loyal infantry be able to defeat the enemy, seeing that the other party kept killing and the tricycle array was constantly torn apart, Wang Zhibang felt a pain in his bones.
However, there were many cavalry on the other side, and the front chariot array was constantly torn apart, and the Tartar cavalry was pouring in like a tidal wave.
Standing on a small hillside 3,4 miles away, he looked at the battlefield again with a telescope, and put down the telescope Yang Xuan looked full of confidence.
In the ancient plains, the cavalry was invincible, and in the mountains and hills, the infantry was a first-class force.
At the beginning of the year, in the face of the Qing army in Sichuan, Yang Xuan took advantage of the strategic mistake of dividing the troops of the Tartars to attack from all sides, relying on the hilly terrain of northern Sichuan to defeat the main force of Haoge's department in one fell swoop, and then rushed to Baizhang Pass, hundreds of miles away, to close the gate of Sichuan, and finally annihilated the Qing army of Luo Luohun with other Ming armies.
The victory at the beginning of the year was really due to the arrogance of the Qing army and the division of troops in battle, which was really based on the advantages of the terrain in northern Sichuan.
After the fiasco, the Qing army regarded the loyal and righteous army as the fierce enemy of the world's strongest army, and the combat terrain was the Hanzhong Plain rather than mountains and hills.
Carefully sailing through the Wannian ship, worried that the opponent's cavalry would rush and kill, in addition to letting Guo Chonglie lead the 3rd town to fight the vanguard, Yang Xuan led the army to follow, and sent a scout horse to inquire about the news from all over the country.
After hearing that the cavalry of the Qing army was preparing to attack Guo Chonglie's headquarters, everyone was worried, and everyone hoped that the loyal and righteous army could fully press the rescue and defeat Nikan and Heluohui in one fell swoop and achieve victory.
The cavalry came and went like the wind on the plain, if it was just a simple defeat of the opponent and a little re-strengthening, he could turn around and fight again, after considering the changes of the other party, Yang Xuan decided to carry out a large depth outflanking, and then led the army to kill the past after completing the outflanking, so as to complete the heavy task of annihilating the stubborn enemy on the plain.
After ordering Yang Bingyi and others to lead part of the left and right sides to outflank them, Yang Xuan led the guard town and the cavalry brigade to move slowly.
The situation on the road gradually deteriorated, especially the 10th Regiment of Wang Zhibang was almost not enough, and Yin Chengqi next to him reminded worriedly: "My lord, the Tartar cavalry is quite strong, Wang Zhibang's regiment is staggering, and if there is no reinforcement, the whole army will be wiped out."
Thinking that before departure, each regiment had carried out infantry and cavalry confrontation drills, Yang Xuan still seemed very calm, just urging the rear army to desperately go to the front, and just sent messengers to ride horses to supervise the outflanked soldiers and horses.
After another two quarters of an hour like this, two or three batches of urgent messengers in front of him were in succession, and Yang Xuan observed the terrain again and said to the left and right: "Everyone, as the saying goes, one blow will be exhausted and then three times exhausted.
In this battle, Nikan was also too big, thinking that his three thousand Manmeng Eight Banners could easily defeat our third town, so he made a big mistake.
The first round of the Tartars' all-round indiscriminate attacks, although they initially bothered our army, but due to the obvious lack of pressure exerted, they had already gained a firm foothold.
After the attack was frustrated, the Tartars learned their lesson and attacked Guo Chonglie's regiment with a harassing attack, and attacked Wang Zhibang's regiment with the main force.
Although it had been continuously attacked, it had not been able to really defeat the regiment, so it seemed that it had fallen into decline again.
In that case, then we will fight them openly, from the Governor downwards, the whole army, leaving no reserves, to attack with all our strength according to the planned route.
Brothers need to remember, don't delay, go forward bravely, those stragglers of the Tartars behind you are left to Guo Chonglie and them, they fought for a long time, we should be polite to this credit.
Everyone needs to remember that the man shoots the horse first, and the thief captures the king first. When you are in close combat, you will first throw a few earth-shattering thunderbolts, and then stab the horse's legs, chop the horse's legs, as long as you cut off the opponent's horse's legs, the opponent's whole person will inevitably fall off the horse's back, and then the credit will be indispensable to yours. ”
Seeing that Yang Xuan was about to go into battle to kill the enemy in person, everyone dissuaded him, and Zhao Ronggui next to him grabbed him and cried: "My lord, you are the backbone of our loyal and righteous army, you are still in command, how to fight in front, I will deal with it with the generals." ”
Yang Xuan laughed and looked at everyone: "Brothers, the main role of the master general is to plan, command, organize, and coordinate.
In addition, we should not forget that the Lord will have another quality, that is, he will be able to rush when he needs to fight hard.
Zhao Tongzhi, I understand your intentions, but now it is necessary for the brothers of the whole army to work hard, if I am the main general and hide behind, how will the brothers think of me? ”
Everyone had no choice but to let the guard chief Niu Dayong lead the guard battalion to protect the left and right, and the other generals led everyone to rush out.
The battle suit was already full of blood, in order to block the offensive of the Tartar cavalry, the 14th Regiment Du Si Wang Zhibang led a battalion to retreat on a hillside, and on the hillside was the ten Fran machine guns of the regiment headquarters, constantly firing back at the swarming Tartar cavalry.
Due to the continuous firing of artillery, some of the Fran machine guns have long been hot and may explode at any time, but as the general Wang Jiushao said, now everyone can rely on the terrain to form a military formation to fight separately to resist the Tatar cavalry, the most important thing is that the regimental headquarters Fran machine guns continue to fire artillery support, it is the division (battalion) tiger squat artillery to support each other, is to believe that the adults will lead the reinforcements at the last moment.
If the Fran cannon is extinguished, everyone is at a loss for what to do, so it is difficult to stop the charge of the Tartar cavalry.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Wang Zhibang just asked everyone to avoid it a little after ignition, and even so, he still blew up two Franc machine guns.
In addition to artillery, what is more worrying is the Tatar cavalry, after discovering the Franc machine gun position of the Loyal Army, Heluo will personally lead the cavalry to charge continuously, although everyone desperately resists, many times and the Tartar cavalry who jumped over the car formation and rushed into the formation, but the opponent's cavalry occupies the advantage of rapid mobility, everyone was killed and retreated, and then under the leadership of the captain, re-rely on natural obstacles such as rivers, fields, ridges and slopes to rebuild a new defensive position.
Now there are less than 100 capable fighters in the whole battalion, and now everyone is also compressed on a large main peak, facing a group of Tartar cavalry coming from the artillery fire, Wang Zhibang closed his eyes tightly, not knowing whether he could block the opponent's final blow again.