Chapter 229: Texas Competition
"Tiancheng, ready?" Xu Tianxiang saw that the army had begun to assemble out of the camp and asked.
Yang Tiancheng nodded and said: "Ge Cunzhou has set up a military formation similar to the Long Snake Formation, the head of the formation is Zhang Quanyi, Zhu Youlun and Pang Shigu as the main generals, concentrating the most elite troops of the Xuanwu Army, and it is also Zhu Quanzhong's housekeeping team, and the Chinese army is Ge Cunzhou's descendants Huo Cun and Zhang Guiba, and the rear army is Liu Jun. It's just that this guy arranged the team in parallel at the front of the battlefield, and commanded the two wings with the Chinese army, which was actually okay with this method. However, Liu Yan's troops have now broken away from the main formation and are gradually moving in the direction of Dezhou Dongcheng. ”
"Let Chen Fan concentrate two or three cavalry corps to follow Liu Cheng and move, and the other troops will immediately form a team, and if he doesn't make a move after an hour, we will attack directly." Focus on Pang Shigu's snake head, and as for Ge Cunzhou's Chinese army, let Hou Chun find a way to deal with it. Xu Tianxiang said.
Yang Tiancheng nodded and began to wave the order flag to adjust the deployment, since the Xuanwu Army had already completed the formation, the adjustment speed of the Tiance Army slowed down, but Yang Tiancheng didn't care, Chen Fan's cavalry corps was ready to go, even if it was a surprise attack on the other party, it was not his opponent, not to mention that he was a head taller than the other party in terms of numbers.
Soon, Yang Tiancheng also put out a long snake formation like Ge Cunzhou, and his tongue concentrated on the attack of 100,000 troops including Chen Yu's army, the Modao battalion and the first battalion, led by Chen Yu, and attacked the tongue part of the Xuanwu army. The Chinese army has Wang Houchun as the main commander, with 100,000 foot cavalry, because Yang Tiancheng does not know Ge Cunzhou's thoughts, so Wang Houchun as the commander of the former army thinks of annihilating the opponent's Chinese army in a war, forcing it to be unable to support other troops. As for the rear army, it was directly handed over to Gao Siji and Wu Huan and other cavalry corps.
As for the artillery battalion, for the first time, a complete organization was concentrated, and it was equipped with the latest artillery into the battle group, which was personally commanded by Su He, ready to carry out long-range strikes.
On the side of the Tiance Army, with the command of the Chinese army, the whole army has also entered the final stage. Moreover, in this battle, except for Wang Houchun personally going into battle because he had to deal with Ge Cunzhou himself, the other troops were basically handed over to other people to command, which can be regarded as using the big war to train the general's command ability of the large corps.
"Tiancheng, let's start, let's attack in advance." Chen Fan boarded the command platform of the Chinese army, glanced at Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng, and nodded.
Yang Tiancheng's command flag in his hand suddenly waved rapidly, and the whole fifty cowhide drums of the war drum team were hammered, almost in an instant, Wang Houchun and Chen Yu of the front army invariably raised their war knives in their hands, and the forward troops began to launch rapidly, and Su He's artillery battalion also launched with all its might, and artillery, mechanical crossbows and explosives bags flew through the middle line of the two armies like a rain of flowers, and smashed towards the Xuanwu army. This has almost become the standard method of operation for the large corps of the Tiance Army, with the artillery battalion attacking in advance to provide tactical cover for the large army, and the infantry relying on long-range support to enter the enemy position.
Chen Fan and Xu Tianxiang sat on the command podium and suddenly became a little bored, this battle has been waiting for so long, and it has been almost a year, but when it comes to the final decisive battle, they, the highest-level commanders, have nothing to do. At the beginning, Yang Tiancheng also commanded and coordinated the order of the troops, and later Chen Fan brought his chief of staff Liu Yi over, and then Yang Tiancheng simply handed over the command to Liu Yi, and he and Chen Fan chatted about the grassland war on the command platform.
However, at this time, all kinds of weapons in the artillery battalion had already set off countless explosions in the Xuanwu Army's large array. Zhang Quanyi actually prepared in advance, and almost all the soldiers in the forward force put up tower shields covered with cowhide and quilts to defend, reducing the additional damage caused by the explosion as much as possible, but they still couldn't withstand the opponent's rain-like attacks. For this battle, the Tiance Army prepared 500 ballistas, all 500 mechanical crossbows and 30 artillery pieces. The logistics department has almost emptied all the stocks of the first generation of explosive packs, so in addition to the battlefield test nature of artillery, mechanical crossbows and ballistas are almost non-stop, regardless of the impact point, anyway, the explosive packs and rockets are launched as quickly as possible. At this time, almost the entire Xuanwu Army's snakehead forwards were shrouded in endless explosions, and the rumbling explosions made the Xuanwu Army's defense not play any role at all, and the explosions that fell from the sky overturned all the tower shields, and these scattered tower shields became the most lethal weapons, and the entire forward position was beaten in a mess.
"Immediately order the whole army to assault and get entangled with the Tiance army." Pang Shigu didn't care about anything else at this time, and roared directly at the guards around him, and the war drum team behind him also sounded the drums of the whole army's assault, and those surviving Xuanwu Army soldiers also rushed forward under the urging of their respective officers, trying to use the soldiers of the Tiance Army as a cover to avoid the opponent's unsolvable attack.
"Archers, mobile shooting." Chen Yu, who was in charge of the forward attack, asked the archers who followed the forward to immediately cover the shot, blocking the momentum of the charge. In the latest combat manual of the Tiance Army, mobile shooting requires infantry archers to accompany the attacking troops to perform battlefield interdiction fire. But after seeing that Chen Yu's order was quickly transmitted to the forward, the archers caught in the second echelon quickly bent their bows and arrows, shooting as they ran. This method of shooting seriously tested the psychological quality and technical level of the archers, and the slightest mistake did not hit the enemy, but brought a fatal blow to their own people. Moreover, the coverage of mobile fire is not so comprehensive, but it is a kind of small battlefield support because it is continuous and can move with the attacking force.
"Lao Shi, you prepare immediately, the forward battalion is responsible for blocking the enemy, and the Modao battalion will take advantage of this time to break in, and the first battalion will follow. When the Silver Wheel troops entered the battlefield for the first time, they needed a solid support point to assist them in their assault role. Chen Yu said to Shi Jian, who was wearing battle armor beside him.
"The Modao battalion is ready to attack." Hearing this, Shi Jian quickly came to the front of the Mo Dao camp that was already ready to go, and the Mo Dao in his hand reflected the dazzling sunlight and began to charge. The shock brought by the charge of the Mo Dao battalion was heavy and long, and the 30,000 Mo Dao men followed Shi Jian's steps step by step across the front lines of the two armies, and actually squeezed through the gap of the forward battalion in an instant and entered the crowd.
There was almost no warning, the first time to face this kind of Mo Dao hand with almost no flaws on his body, all the soldiers of the Xuanwu Army who participated in the attack were frightened by this venerable steel monster, and their own swords and guns did not hurt the opponent, but under the power of the opponent's long knife, the body was in a different place, and the bloody corpse fragments and blood fell to the ground at will, terrifying and terrifying. And as the entire Modao battalion entered the battlefield, this kind of violent killing also amplified this panic to the limit, although the Xuanwu army occupied a numerical advantage, but often three or five people besieged a Modao hand but were cut by the other party one by one.
"Order the first battalion and the follow-up men to join the attack immediately and blast my tongue out." Chen Yu saw that the Modao Battalion had begun to charge backwards, and immediately pressed all the men under him. All of a sudden, the horn of the charge resounded throughout the audience, and the shouts of killing all over the mountains began to spread along with the charge of the Tiance Army.
"Chen Yu's speed is so fast, it seems that the Xuanwu Army is not prepared for the Modao Battalion at all, and it has been broken in." Chen Fan saw that Chen Yu had ordered the whole army to charge, and said a little strangely. He has been fighting in the north for a long time, and to be honest, he doesn't know much about the troops of the various feudal towns in the Central Plains, and in his opinion, the weakness of the Mo Daoist can be said to be obvious, almost equal to his combat strength, how can it seem that the Xuanwu Army is not prepared?
"Do you think the Xuanwu Army is us, and we have the money to build the Modao Battalion and the Heavy Cavalry Battalion?" Yang Tiancheng glared at Chen Fan and said with a smile.
"What the hell is Houchun doing? Why hasn't there been much movement yet? As soon as Yang Tiancheng finished speaking, Xu Tianxiang pointed to the front of the Chinese army a little strangely and said suspiciously.
"It doesn't seem that Houchun is playing ghosts, but Ge Cunzhou's troops are playing ghosts, right?" Yang Tiancheng stood up and looked at it when he heard this, and he was also a little puzzled: "Ge Cunzhou, this is not to preserve his strength, right?" At this time, if the Chinese army can't bring the rhythm, won't it watch the former army annihilated? No, we can't let Ge Cunzhou preserve his strength, otherwise, once he wants to leave after the war, our trouble will be not small. Liu Yi, immediately give Su He an order, let the artillery unit aim at the Chinese army for me, boom. ”
After receiving the order, Liu Yi quickly adjusted his direction and beckoned towards Ge Cunzhou's Chinese army, among which the artillery was the fastest, and the fragmentation damage caused by the explosion after the flowering shell that appeared in advance landed on the ground was not at all able to be blocked by any defensive weapon in this era, and the soldiers of the Xuanwu Army who were relatively close to the explosion point fell in pieces, and there was no room to fight back. If it weren't for the fact that the first-generation artillery still belonged to the front artillery, which was not only slow, but also had a very small caliber, the Tiance Army would be able to directly smooth out the Chinese defense line that Ge Cunzhou had painstakingly managed by these artillery pieces alone.
However, the actions of the artillery battalion made Wang Houchun frown, in fact, as soon as he arrived at the front army, he found that there was a strange aura in the Xuanwu army on the opposite side, and there was not much murderous aura in the face of himself on the other side, many soldiers strictly controlled their actions under the constraints of their respective officers, and the Chinese army on Zhang Quanyi's side that was killed by the Tiance army did not even send people to flank the flank of the Modao battalion. This kind of behavior made Wang Houchun think about what the other party's intentions were. When the artillery of the artillery battalion began to bombard, Wang Houchun suddenly thought of a possibility in his mind, but at this moment, this idea made him startled, but the rumbling cannon sound also made him not think so much at this time, taking advantage of the fact that the other party began to dodge the artillery fire in a hurry, the Tiance Army of the Chinese army also received a long-lost order, and the whole army assaulted and pressed. However, Wang Houchun still couldn't suppress the doubts in his heart, and specially told the commanders of the various armies to personally come forward to command, and when necessary, they should always pay attention to the signal of the command platform of the Chinese army.
In fact, when Wang Houchun hesitated, Ge Cunzhou's face on the other side also changed, and Zhang Quanyi's encounter on his side also made him quickly firm up his thoughts, but then the artillery fire of the Tiance Army sounded again, and this kind of artillery also made him suddenly sound a question that he ignored, his thoughts on his side have never communicated with the Tiance Army, how to make the other party believe in himself on the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of people at this time? And how do you get your troops out of the hosts? And there are Zhu Quanzhong's prison and law enforcement teams standing next to him? Ge Cunzhou's mind was that he wanted to take the army out and hand it over to the Tiance Army, but he didn't want to tear his face with Zhu Quanzhong in person, and he couldn't grasp this vague boundary at all under the dilemma.
"Immediately order Huo Cun and Zhang Guiba to lead the army to assault left and right, surround the Tiance army and send troops in front of it, and the personal guards will meet the enemy head-on with me. The overseers and law enforcement teams defended the city and ordered the army to assault on all fronts. Ge Cunzhou looked at the Tiance army that was getting closer and closer, as if he had made up his mind in an instant, and began to give orders one by one, and the prison army on the side originally had opinions on Ge Cunzhou's delay in sending troops to rescue Zhang Quanyi and others, but at this time, seeing Ge Cunzhou ordering the army to attack on all fronts, he himself was even more clothed in battle and ready to lead the army into battle in person, all doubts were dispelled, and he hurriedly nodded and took the order.
"Whether you succeed or die depends on this trick." Ge Cunzhou glanced at the direction of Huo Cun and Zhang Guiba and nodded secretly, the pro-guard team is an old unit trained by Ge Cunzhou himself, and it has always been in the nature of a battlefield commando, and at this time, he followed Ge Cunzhou behind him to counter-charge in the direction of the Tiance Army.
"Liang Chuan, immediately order the pro-guard team to find the other party's commander, and say that I, Ge Cunzhou, plan to lead my troops to surrender." After Ge Cunzhou left the Chinese army's main array, he immediately gave Liang Chuan an order.
When Ge Cunzhou led the army to leave, Zhu Quanzhong, who was watching the battle from the tower of Dezhou City, suddenly jumped at the same time, instinctively feeling what would happen, but he suddenly let go of his mind when he saw that Ge Cunzhou's handsome banner had been moved to the position of the front army, for him, Ge Cunzhou's talent He knew very well that once he personally led the army to attack, it would inevitably be a critical moment.
"What's going on with Ge Cunzhou? Why did you directly assault the whole army so quickly? On the command platform of the Tiance Army, Chen Fan and Xu Tianxiang glanced at each other, both of them saw the doubt in each other's eyes, but before they could say anything, Yang Tiancheng suddenly shouted: "How can Houchun send a signal for us to stop the shelling?" ”
When the two heard the sound, they stepped forward but found that Wang Houchun had personally sent a signal to stop the shelling, and the front army guards had already ridden back, and it seemed that what was happening in front of him made him suddenly make such an abnormal move.
"Order the artillery battalion to stop the shelling, and the Chinese reserve force will press on the whole army, and obey the dispatch of the former army commander." Yang Tiancheng groaned slightly and gave an order, and the reserve of tens of thousands of people in the rear army began to receive the order of the Chinese army to move forward.
"You said that Ge Cunzhou would not be preparing to lead his troops to surrender, right?" Xu Tianxiang suddenly had a thought in his mind, which made the faces of the two people around him change.
"Liu Yi, the Chinese army is coordinated by you, and the pro-guard team guards the command platform into the front army position." Xu Tianxiang decisively ordered, and the three of them immediately turned over and stepped forward directly with the Chinese army escort, ready to find out.