Chapter 412: Twists and Turns

"Commander Qiyu, the deputy marshal has already started fighting with Jiamu outside the Uighur camp as scheduled." When Wan Yi received the news of Gao Siji's attack on the whole line, in fact, Gao Siji's Seventh Corps was already entangled with Jiamu, which was different from the breech gun equipped by the Chai Jia Corps, Gao Siji's side was a Chinese formal rifle, with strong and dense firepower, and because it was far away from the camp, Gao Siji brought all the three hundred and twenty artillery pieces belonging to the artillery battalion. Jiamu's side was almost a sea of fire, and countless cavalry were blown to the ground before they could react before they left the barracks. In fact, this is also the first time that the Tiance Army has concentrated such a scale of artillery force to participate in a battle so far, and it is the first time that it has faced this kind of firepower in the dark night.

On the contrary, the Seventh Corps of the Tiance Army easily aimed the spearhead of the attack at the position of the opponent's Chinese army in the midst of the artillery fire in the sky, relying on the mortar detachment and grenade support equipped by the corps at close range, the 50,000 people of the Seventh Corps forcefully inserted into the core position of the opponent in the form of a sharp arrow, and after the rapid follow-up of each battalion, they directly reacted in Jiamu and directly cut the opponent's formation into two sections.

"Order the left flank cavalry to immediately engage in a counter-charge, aim at the opposing rear, and destroy those explosive monsters for me." Jia Mu had already adjusted from his panic at this time, and did not hesitate to blow the horn at the moment, and hurriedly ordered the cavalry on the left flank that had been scattered to attack the artillery direction of the Tiance Army regardless of the formation and formation. To this day, all opponents of the Tiance Army already know the basic configuration of the weapons of the Tiance Army, but because the early artillery was basically a direct aim, relying on the gunner's visual inspection and auxiliary mechanical aiming devices, the position of the artillery can basically be judged according to the trajectory of the cannonball in the air. I have to say that Jiamu's move is particularly accurate, the cavalry on the left flank is basically scattered in the first wave of attacks of the Tiance Army, although there are many people but basically have lost the basic establishment and formation, it can be said that although Jiamu's move is used when these people are discarded, but in the shortest possible time the role of this group of defeated soldiers is used to the extreme, after sending these people out, Jiamu quickly integrated the cavalry on the right flank that was still basically intact, and began to abandon the group charge, and changed to the attack formation of the Seventh Corps diagonally, Dodge the opponent's overly sharp artillery fire by quickly engaging them in close combat, and at the same time quickly inflict your own counterattacks on the opponent.

After the adjustment on the Jiamu side, Gao Siji instantly felt the pressure on his side, showing that more and more Uighur cavalry began to gather near the artillery camp, although they were all chaotic and there was no tacit understanding between them, but the artillery unit really felt threatened. The infantry responsible for guarding the artillery battalion immediately entered the counterattack, and a mortar squad attached to the artillery battalion also began to use the advantage of close artillery to support the infantry in combat. As a result, some artillery began to cease fire, so the pressure on the Jiamu side began to gradually reduce, and they began to use the 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry that had not yet been scattered to gradually regain their disadvantage on the front line, and entered a stalemate with the main force of the Seventh Corps.

"Order all the troops who are going forward to retreat a hundred paces, cover each battalion for each other, retreat according to the adjusted order of the corps, and then arrange a blocking line." Gao Siji only felt that Jiamu was sending troops to attack the artillery position at first, but then there was an increasingly neat sound of fighting from the front, which made him quickly react to Jiamu's deployment, so he immediately began to compete and began to deploy a counterattack. First of all, the corps pro-guard immediately launched smoke rockets, and the various smoke rockets that continued to rise into the air made the battalions of the Seventh Corps begin to retreat and adjust when they heard the news, and each corps showed a kind of drum-like retreat after receiving the order, although the Uighur cavalry wanted to take advantage of the situation to pursue, but the firepower of the Tiance army did not weaken at all when they retreated, but it made the Uighur cavalry, who had never seen this way, suffer a big loss.

However, 100 zhang was not a distance at all for the Uighur cavalry, on the contrary, the distance was equal to giving the cavalry enough space to charge, so that Jiamu's cavalry attack strategy was also smoothly implemented, and countless cavalry began to swarm forward with rumbling iron hooves, almost ignoring the firepower of the Tiance army, and followed the footsteps of the retreating Seventh Corps.

"This Jiamu is very decisive and decisive." Gao Siji stood in the rear and knew the movement in front of him well, and the fire set off after the artillery shells in front of him continued to explode so far that Gao Siji's line of sight could roughly see the movements of the Uighur cavalry, so he was also very impressed by Jiamu's decision, but admiration was admiration, Gao Siji did not hesitate at all, and the battalions of the Seventh Corps turned to defense on the spot after they retreated, and in order to deal with the Uighur cavalry following, Although the artillery battalion was also besieged, it had gained a firm foothold under the resistance of the guarding infantry and the continuous support of mortars, so after Gao Siji personally commanded the artillery, the powerful firepower concentrated on bombarding this area, and suddenly relied on the brutal dense shells to ruthlessly tear apart the attack formation of Jiamu, so that the Uighur cavalry fell short.

"Order each battalion to fight me to the death, and each decides the order of the attack." Gao Siji delegated the initiative on the battlefield to the commanders of each battalion, and he himself began to adjust the attack order of the artillery, adjusting the firing range of most of the artillery in his hand to the maximum, so as to envelop the formation of most of the Uighur cavalry and prevent Jiamu from temporarily abandoning the attack and retreating from Yizhou.

When Gao Siji's side was trying his best to block and contain Jiamu, Wan Yi's side had already surrounded Hammud and couldn't move, because he didn't have the keen battlefield reaction and decision-making ability of Jiamu, although the number of troops in Hammud's hands was about the same as Jiamu, but at this time, it was surrounded by all the superior forces of the Tiance Army, Chai Jia had already led the soldiers and horses in his hand to stabilize the formation, and began to constantly adjust the deployment, reoccupy the part of the Chinese military camp that was lost before, and then continue to counterattack. To say that the three corps remaining in the camp at this time, the resilience of Chai Jia's division is the strongest, and after withstanding the impact of more than 100,000 Uighur cavalry in Anxi, it can still resist step by step, maintain the basic front and not be scattered, and after the Modao battalion rushed in, Hammud's energy was dispersed, and he was able to gather the scattered subordinates one by one in the shortest possible time, and then put into a counterattack when part of the organization was already chaotic, which shows Chai Jia's efforts in this area in recent years. This is also the reason why Wan Yi gave up putting the Modao Battalion, which is the most powerful in the Western Expeditionary Army, in this position, the Modao Battalion may be more aggressive than Chai Jia's department, but it can not have the toughness of the army when defending counterattacks and disadvantages, but Chai Jia does not do it well.

And after the adjustment of the Chai Jia Division, it also means that Wan Yi's side has made the final preparations to encircle and annihilate the Gaochang Uighur Division, and the Modao Battalion Shi Jian has been diagonally inserted into the core area of Hammud after withstanding the momentum of Hammad's external expansion on Chai Jia's side, although this force was under the greatest pressure at the beginning, but the Modao Battalion withstood this pressure and cooperated with the peripheral troops to gradually stabilize the situation, and as time went by, After Shi Jian and Tuoba Si joined forces, Hamoud became more and more optimistic about this battle, and what made him more and more sad was that Haller had disappeared since the start of the war, and his rear had been surrounded by Tuoba Siji's cavalry corps, which seemed to be more than lucky. Therefore, when the Modao battalion organized troops to rush up again, Hammoud no longer hesitated, and quickly gathered the most elite 30,000 horses in his hands to make a decisive attack in the direction of the back, preparing to break through. Because of the constant sound of artillery bombardment from the camp of the coalition forces on the periphery of Yizhou, Hammoud understood that Jiamu had already come out of the camp to rescue him, but was blocked by another army of the Tiance Army, if he could rush out, then at least he could open a life channel after joining forces with Jiamu to rescue his troops.

It can be said that Hammad's reaction at this time should be the most correct, if he can rely on the combat power of the elite cavalry in his hand to stand out after the cavalry corps of Tuoba Siji reacted, then as long as he can join Jiamu, then Gao Siji's 50,000 people who rely on the Seventh Corps on the side want to intercept the cavalry that wants to go, and in the night, once the army begins to entangle with each other, then Gao Siji, as long as the connection between Gao Siji and Tuoba Siji is disconnected, Hammad's subordinates are really likely to be rescued.

Hammad's decision this time can be described as quite timely, which also became the reason why Wan Yi and Gao Siji later looked at him, in the later campaign against the Uighurs of Gaochang, Gao Siji did his best to capture Hammud alive, this Uighur who later defected to the Tang Dynasty in the course of the Tang Dynasty's operation in the Western Regions, with scattered Uighur soldiers for the Tang Dynasty to expand the territory.

However, at this time, Hammud's move obviously made Tuoba Siji not mentally prepared at all, and the 30,000 elite cavalry roared away like a storm and quickly passed through the defense line set up by Tuoba Siji, which made Tuoba Siji furious, and the cooked duck flew away under his nose, and this duck may also destroy the big things on Gao Siji's side. So Tuoba Siji didn't care about anything else at all, and directly led the army to start a tailgating attack, biting Hammud's tail and not letting go.

Although Shi Jian quickly adjusted his deployment after understanding Tuoba Siji's intentions, and sent a signal to Wan Yi and Chai Jia as soon as possible, the Uighur cavalry, who had finally seen hope, rushed forward desperately.

"Order the whole army to assault and press me up." Although he was surprised that Hammud chose to break through at this time and was heading towards the location of Jiamu and the Seventh Corps, Wan Yi no longer paid attention to the battlefield on the side of the Seventh Corps after Tuoba Siji rushed forward, and instead began to concentrate on encircling and suppressing the Uighurs who were still surrounded in the middle at this time, and eating most of the Uighurs became Shi Jian and Chai Jia's biggest goal at this time.

Under the threat of death, the speed of these Uighur cavalry soared by a large margin, and almost at lightning speed, they rushed directly into the Seventh Corps and the Anxi Uighur cavalry of Jiamu, which were already entangled at this time. As soon as this unexpected force rushed in, the balance of power on the battlefield was instantly changed, and Jiamu saw Hammud leading people into the battlefield from afar and instantly understood the key to the battle, so he no longer hesitated, and directly ordered his Chinese troops to immediately step forward and join Hammud and then turn around and attack the Tiance army camp, and he led the remaining troops to fight and retreat, and began to retreat towards the camp.

In this way, because the Uighurs and the two tribes were dispatched together, Jiamu did not hesitate to risk his own life and aim to attract Gao Siji's eyes to follow him, and successfully hid the traces of Hammud. It's just that his action almost caused him to fall under the bullets of the Seventh Corps. As Jiamu kept blowing the horn during the retreat, calling on all the Uighur cavalry to quickly return to the camp and rely on the camp to hold on, he and his personal guards became a thorn in the side of everyone in the Seventh Corps, and almost subconsciously the rifles in the hands of the soldiers of the Seventh Corps in front of him were all pouring bullets at the area where Jiamu was located. The stormy rain of bullets directly swept all of Jiamu's personal guards off the horse, Jiamu himself was hit by a stray bullet in the shoulder, the red blood was left along the armor, the severe pain made Jiamu have no time to dodge, a cannonball exploded around him, and the whirling shrapnel instantly tore apart the war horse under Jiamu's crotch, so that Jiamu's figure also fell to the ground.

Jiamu and his personal guards were fired by the 7th Corps to make the Uighur cavalry at this time a great chaos, the cavalry that had been gradually gathered was once again disrupted by this rapid artillery fire, plus the commander was shot down and did not know whether he was alive or dead, so that completely ruined the Uighur military morale, these cavalry almost without thinking about the desperate towards the camp, because there was no way to restrain it, countless cavalry together rushed to the camp gate and instantly knocked the remaining soldiers to the ground, tens of thousands of cavalry rushed through, The gates of the company, the defenders and the battalion were all washed to the ground.

At this time, Jiamu was also found by the soldiers next to him, he was not killed in battle, but he was seriously injured but he finally picked up a life, and after being dragged back to the camp, he struggled to command the troops to gather fire near the camp gate and shoot arrows outward, plus the soldiers who were originally guarding the camp had already prepared hundreds of bed crossbows, at this time, a burst of outward shooting made the unprepared Seventh Corps be put down, Gao Siji saw that most of the Uighur cavalry had returned to the camp, so he simply gave up attacking the camp, Instead, he began to move towards Hammud, who had already broken through the line of defense of Tuoba Siji and began to draw in the Uighur cavalry who had previously broken out of the encirclement of the Celestial Army.

However, Hammoud obviously did not intend to stay on the battlefield for long, so when he saw that the Seventh Corps had already made a detour towards his left flank, he immediately began to blow the horn and let these Uighur cavalry, who had broken up and finally escaped, find their own way to follow him, and then led more than 70,000 Uighur cavalry under his command to spread their feet and go straight to the city of Yizhou, and when he returned to the city, he urgently sent someone to inform Jiamu to abandon the military camp outside the city and urgently return to the city to wait for reinforcements.

Although Hammud's move was subsequently cracked by Wan Yi, the Tiance army at that time had already transferred the main force to the south, so although it cracked the opponent's strategy, it also lost the strength to attack the Uighur camp and Yizhou at the same time, so it could only wait until the Modao battalion returned to the front line to break through Yizhou in one fell swoop, so as to completely enter the territory of the Gaochang Uighurs.