Chapter 444: Hanhai is Hard to Do (4)
When Hammud was fighting Qiuzi reinforcements in the northwest, Shi Jian also received an urgent order from the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army outside Yanqi City. This made Shi Jian, who had originally dispatched Tuoba Siji to reinforce Hammud, immediately order, so that Tuoba Siji immediately let go of the encirclement and suppression of those rabble outside Yanqi City, and quickly moved towards the northwest, leaving a battalion of troops to cooperate with the artillery unit to continue to bombard Yanqi, and all the remaining troops immediately put down the current siege task and then went towards the dying Yanqi coalition army that was killed by Tuoba Siji.
This kind of drastic battlefield force adjustment naturally can't hide the defenders in Yanqi City, but the Yanqi defenders were beaten by more than 10,000 people led by Yan Chixia as soon as they left the city. Because Shi Jian left all the artillery, more than 100 artillery pieces and a mechanical crossbow fired together when the Yanqi defenders went out of the city and planned to take advantage of the gap to sneak attack, and the earth-shattering artillery fire directly turned the Yanqi defenders on their backs, and there was no way to form a scale outside the city, and Yan Chixia took advantage of the other party's fierce artillery bombardment when he led his troops to immediately enter the counterattack, more than 10,000 rifles fired at the same time like a meteor shower and directly blocked the entire city gate, and those Yanqi defenders who were lucky not to be killed by artillery fire were killed one after another, in this way, the Yanqi defenders could not go out of the city to fight except for the corpses that were thrown on the ground.
However, the Yanqi defenders, who had no plan, immediately changed directions and went out of the city after retreating into the city, preparing to make a detour. However, when Shi Jian adjusted his deployment, he prepared enough scouts near the three gates of Yanqi City, plus Xuan Yingwei's approach reconnaissance lurking on the battlefield, so although Yan Chixia had no way to deal with the 10,000 people in his hands at the same time near the three city gates at the same time, this man from Youbei was obviously quite delicate in his heart compared to his thick appearance, and after thinking about it for a while, he immediately thought of a countermeasure. also sent a small force to constantly harass these men and horses who went out of the city to reinforce the horses, and immediately concentrated the main force to attack the city again, regardless of the direct re-attack of the city, and in order to attack it, Yan Chixia changed the previous Shi Jian in order to coordinate the actions of the cavalry corps and the Uighur corps to suppress the attack of the Modao battalion, more than 8,000 infantry with the support of more than 100 artillery began to use all their strength to attack the city, and quickly sent more than a dozen groups of demomen under the cover of artillery fire, Taking advantage of the fact that the Yanqi army was bombed on the top of the city tower and could not concentrate on defending the city at all, he rushed to the city gate, and directly placed the blaster on the shattered corpse of the Yanqi army that had been blown up before for a powerful blast.
A loud bang followed, a huge mushroom cloud appeared outside Yanqi City, and after more than a dozen blasting canisters were placed to detonate together, the west gate of Yanqi City was blown away as a whole, and countless original stones and adobe bricks were blown apart, accompanied by flames and smoke that rose to the sky, flying everywhere, forming a dense shock wave that shot all around, completely killing the Yanqi army who escaped in the explosion, these shattered rubble were more lethal than the prefabricated explosion fragments built in the blasting canister, And the scope of the spread is wider, because the explosives used in the new generation of blasting canisters are no longer the black powder of the past, but the white explosives developed by the Tiance Army, and the power produced after the explosion is also stronger.
Yan Chixia moved the real fire and blew up the city defense of Yanqi City at once, although the troops in her hands were insufficient, but the defenders in Yanqi City were not as many as before at this time, in addition to the Modao Battalion killed in the previous siege battle, there were about twenty or thirty thousand people who were sent to support outside the city, so after the city wall was blown down, Yan Chixia decisively threw all the troops into the city, and let the artillery troops aim at the urn city behind the city wall to bombard. Although the artillery at this time was basically a field cannon with direct aim, and it could not be bent like a howitzer, it could still pass over the city wall after pulling to the maximum range.
However, it was precisely because the troops in Yan Chixia's hands were not enough, so Yan Chixia did not go all out into the street battle after leading the troops into the city, but directly occupied the city wall that had not yet collapsed in the west city, and used the height advantage of the city wall to snipe the Yanqi defenders who came to drive away, and the artillery units outside the city also began to adjust after covering the infantry to enter the city, and pushed more than ten artillery pieces to the city gate that was blown up before, directly plugging the gap and then launching an artillery bombardment in full view, because at this time it was very close to the place where the Yanqi defenders gathered to counterattack. Therefore, these dozen artillery pieces almost adjusted the firing range to the shortest, the straight trajectory made the shells quickly land and then explode after being fired, more than a dozen artillery pieces have been lined up and then fired together to assist the infantry to quickly open the situation, and the Yanqi defenders were forced to move hundreds of meters away, and with the continuous fall of the shells, the Yanqi soldiers who were blown up by the shells continued to increase, and the morale of the defenders also dropped to the freezing point with the continuous bombardment of this insoluble weapon.
At this time, the commander of the Yanqi defenders naturally understood what the other party's purpose was in doing this, which was typical of using the siege to force himself to transfer back the troops sent out of the city to return to the city. Tiance Army cares so much about the outside of the city, so it is right for him to send reinforcements out, but the embarrassing situation in front of him now is that his troops may not have encountered the main force of the other party not long after leaving the city, and Yanqi City has been broken by a partial army outside the city, how does he choose? And he became more and more suspicious of the purpose of the other party's trip. The opponent's main force attacked Yanqi City for most of the day, and it has not yet broken through the city defense, but now the main force has been all drawn, but a prejudice is like destroying the Yanqi City that they have worked hard to operate for a long time to blow up, what conspiracy is hidden in it? Could it be that all this is in the other party's calculations? If this is the case, then the entire military movement around Yanqi will inevitably collapse on all fronts, so thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on the forehead of this Yanqi guard who even Jiamu hadn't paid attention to, and he even forgot to give an order to transfer back the troops out of the city.
However, at this time, his idea actually did not play a role in changing the situation of the battle, Yan Chixia immediately mobilized troops to counterattack after successfully occupying the city wall and stabilizing the pace, and let the dozen or so artillery pieces blocked in the gap, together with the follow-up troops, began to find a way to forcibly transport the artillery to the city wall, relying on the height advantage to continue the shelling, and concentrate his infantry brigade to attack the center of Yanqi City.
The news that Yanqi City had taken the city wall by relying on Yan Chixia's crazy attack quickly spread to Shi Jian, who succeeded Tuoba Siji in encircling and suppressing the various groups of coalition forces outside Yanqi City, he didn't expect that this deputy general really relied on a small number of troops to attack Yanqi City at this critical moment, so when he was planning to send troops back to support Yan Chixia to expand the results of the battle, he received a report from the dark guard again, and the defenders of Yanqi City swarmed from the north and south gates out of the city, the number of which were 10,000 in the south and 20,000 in the north city, all of which were cavalry troops, at this time almost arrived at his side.
"Order the whole army to advance to the south, arrange an arc defensive line, and the logistics auxiliaries immediately seize the hilly terrain ahead and assist the main force in building positions." After receiving the report, Shi Jian immediately began to take the more than 30,000 people of the Modao battalion to immediately release the encirclement and suppression of those tribal alliances, and the whole army was aggressive in the direction of the southern hills, and some troops even gave up blocking the Uighur army that followed behind him, and advanced with all their might.
The combat power of the Modao Battalion was originally the main combat force of the Tiance Army, and it was extremely proficient in the tactics of field warfare, so it immediately built a defensive line near the hill after fighting and retreating, and tens of thousands of people acted at the same time, only to see sections of jagged trenches appearing one after another, and these soldiers did not even take into account whether the tribal coalition forces that chased them around them would attack them when they were digging the trenches. However, after arriving at the location of the hill, Shi Jian immediately asked his personal guards and 10,000 of them to immediately set off for Yanqi City to receive the artillery troops, almost all of the opponent's troops were cavalry, although the tribal alliance was not strong, but the Uighur cavalry out of the city was very fast, and it was difficult to block the opponent's cluster charge with rifles alone.
However, as soon as the pro-guard team set off, the news from Xuanyingwei's side came again, and the 10,000 people who left the city on the southern front had already shrunk back. This news made Shi Jian stunned for a moment, and then he understood that he was afraid that Yan Chixia's side had already opened up the situation and began to attack in the city. So he immediately changed the deployment, and immediately reinforced, Yan Chixia with the personal guards and a battalion that originally went to meet the artillery unit, and even Shi Jian understood the connection between the two battlefields at this time, what he needed to do here was to drag the more than 30,000 cavalry who had arrived at the scene, and Yan Chixia used the opportunity of pinning down the Yanqi defenders on his side to attack Yanqi as best his hand and find a way to take Yanqi City. As long as any of these two battlefields achieves decisive results, it will cause drastic changes in the other battlefield, leading to drastic changes in the campaign. After thinking about this clearly, Shi Jian had not yet moved, and the other party had already launched an attack one step in advance, obviously he understood the truth, and the other party had already understood, so he would launch an attack in advance, trying to take down himself before there was an accident on the side of Yanqi City.
The generals on both sides have an understanding of the battlefield and their role in it, so the battle was in full swing from the beginning. Shi Jian lost the support of artillery, but more than 20,000 people used the cover of the trenches and the close support of mortars to still block the opponent's front in a short period of time, and the strength of a battalion of the Tiance Army that had just gone out also made the opponent have to leave enough troops at all times to prevent the other party from touching any direction to surprise him.
And when the two battlefields of Yanqi City suddenly opened fire, in fact, the northwest side had already been almost beaten by Hammud. From the very beginning, Hammoud broke through the opposing Chinese army and made up his mind to kill the opposing commander, Maha. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of the war horse under the crotch to suddenly jump into the air, the long knife in his hand quickly slashed through the opponent's neck like a long rainbow, and a huge human head rose into the sky with the strong impact of the war horse, and Maha was killed by Hammoud on the spot within one move.
"As soon as Maha dies, all the sons and daughters will be killed with me." Hammoud didn't care to wipe the blood splashed on his face and roared angrily, and the personal guards less than twenty feet away from him saw that their commander was extremely brave and directly killed the opponent's main general, and immediately followed the roar, and for a moment the deafening sound began to suddenly drum up on this battlefield, and the death of Maha began to spread along with this wave, and when they heard the news that the other party's main was going to be killed, all the soldiers of the Uighur army saw the hope of victory in an instant, and their morale was greatly boosted. Along with the morale, the combat power began to rise. On the contrary, all the soldiers on the Anxi Uighur side were extremely confused, and the soldiers near the Chinese army saw that their main general was killed, and the blow of losing the main general made them gradually suppressed by the brothers of the same clan around them, and the unison roar of the Uighur army also made more and more Anxi Uighur soldiers understand that their commander had encountered an accident, so the morale of the Anxi Uighur soldiers on the entire battlefield began to decline sharply because of the commander being killed and confused.
Hammoud used his decisiveness and bravery to set the tone for the battle, but at this time he himself was in prison, and after killing the opponent's commander, because his own personal guards did not rush to his side for a while, he was surrounded by the reflexive Mahara's personal guards, and the other party was bent on killing Hammoud for revenge, and the Uighur lieutenants began to follow at this time, at this time only by killing Hammoud could the battle be saved, otherwise the Anxi Uighur army would inevitably fall into a situation of fighting on its own.
However, Hammoud did not care about his current dangerous situation, but directly rode his horse towards the direction of the opponent's lieutenant general, relying on the sweat and blood of the horse's unparalleled speed in a short period of time, Hammoud in the continuous slashing of several Maha guards, lifted the reins again, the BMW took off again, four hooves stepped directly on the body of the other cavalry, took advantage of the momentum to jump up again, and then fell down and appeared beside the other party.
After "Dangdangdang" made three consecutive high-speed slashes, Hammoud lost the effect of the high-speed impact brought by the advantage of the war horse, and did not successfully kill the opponent, but slashed at the opponent's horse's neck at the end, so although he did not kill the opponent, he successfully knocked the opponent to the ground. But before Hammoud could turn his horse's head, the screams behind him began again.
When Hammoud looked back at the situation, he suddenly roared angrily: "Listen to the Uighur brothers of Ansi, immediately lay down their arms and surrender, or they will be killed." A roar shook the world, as if it had shattered the confidence of all the Ansi Uighur soldiers. At this moment, he did not expect that after the whole battle was over, when the Uighur army had paid more than 10,000 casualties, Hamoud's name spread throughout Anxi, and this famous general began to be famous throughout the northwest after this battle.