Chapter 470: The Battle of Kupila (Part II)

Tieler's large-scale mobilization of troops out of the city was naturally unable to hide Gao Siji, who had been observing the battle situation on the front line with a thousand miles of realm, and Teller's choice of the flank of Us'er in the northeast direction as a breakthrough also surprised him, when the forward corps was disrupted by the disruption of the formation, the reserve troops into other fronts could certainly attract the attention and energy of some enemy troops, but the support role of the central corps was really limited. At this time, the most important thing to do is to let the reserve corps rush forward to temporarily take over the forward operation, so that Julan has enough time to adjust the disrupted deployment, and then mobilize the whole army to attack, and defeat Gao Siji's Chinese army in one fell swoop, so as to completely win this battle.

However, although Gao Siji was surprised, he did not let go of the other party at all, and immediately asked the herald to go to the northeast flank to tell Wusi'er, so that the main force of the right army immediately turned its guns to Tiele's attack to stabilize the position, and at the same time used the advantage of the high range of artillery to concentrate firepower to support Wusi'er. As for the frontal battlefield, after the two battalions of the Central Corps joined forces with Shi Jian, relying on the mechanical crossbow one after another rapid explosion shock wave, Kulan could not stabilize the situation in a short period of time, and the range paid a huge price under this endless firepower attack, and the Predators who survived the battle fell in a pool of blood in pieces under the blows of new weapons. The Gobi Desert, which is full of yellow sand, has absorbed too much blood, resulting in patches of blood and mud, and countless streams have formed on the beach under the blood jet, which is red and dazzling.

"Tell the Modao battalion to begin to press forward, and let me drive the Uighur army to Usir." Gao Siji watched coldly, the battle outside was fierce, but he was extremely calm, and Tiele's attack on Wu Si'er did not bring him the slightest change, but immediately after Wu Si'er stabilized his position, he ordered Shi Jian to lead the Mo Dao Battalion out of the trenches and began to move forward step by step towards the Kulan Corps, and at the same time mobilized the mechanical crossbow to cooperate with the actions of the Mo Dao Battalion to suppress the counterattack of Julan. In this way, if you look down from the air, the Tiance army will take Gao Siji's Chinese army as the starting point, and Shi Jian's side as the starting point, and start from the Uighur army to slowly move away from the side of the city wall. At first, Wu Si'er's side didn't understand what Gao Siji meant, and after stabilizing his position, he desperately blocked Tie Le's attack, and the two sides even fought against each other outside the position, but as Shi Jian's side slowly advanced, when the oppressive Julan army was also approaching Wu Si'er's side, Gao Siji directly issued the latest order, so that Wu Si'er immediately began to prepare to fight and retreat. In this way, Usier suddenly came to his senses, and began to arrange for the troops to withdraw from the position, and according to the method of alternately covering the retreat of each army, one retreats and the other blocks the attack, and then retreats for a distance and then stops and counterattacks on the spot, so as to cover the friendly troops behind them to get out of the opponent's attack range as soon as possible. The Modao Battalion and the Seventh Corps were like a revolving door, pushing and pulling one by one, and soon there were obvious results, and Tiele and Julan were brought out of the direction of the city wall by this revolving door without even noticing. After the two troops converged, Julan suddenly found that he was originally in the west of the Tang army, but at this time he unknowingly ran to the north. Kupila Castle was behind him, but now he ran to his right. At this moment, cold sweat broke out between the two of them, and the other party tried his best to separate himself from the city, didn't he deliberately cut off his retreat to the city? Thinking of this, it would be strange if the two didn't realize that they were being calculated by each other. However, unlike Tie Le, who still had to think about how to solve this crisis, Ju Lan completely calmed down at this time, and he didn't even have time to discuss with Tie Le to directly order his headquarters to immediately start attacking south, which was where Gao Siji's Chinese army was located at this time.

"Julan is really a battle-hardened general, and he can choose the most suitable direction of attack based on intuition alone, but isn't it a little late to think about it at this time?" The infantry of the two battalions guarding the Chinese army had already followed the Uighur transfer and constantly changed their positions, so they began to counterattack as soon as they received the order, and when the artillery position was not adjusted, they took the initiative to send a mortar detachment to rely on the advantage of rapid fire to block the impact of the Kulan iron cavalry.

"Let the mechanical crossbow give me full strength to shoot and cover the Chinese army to stop Kulan. Send a signal to the Modao Battalion and the Seventh Corps to join forces and fight in the middle. Gao Siji let out a long howl, and the horns of the soldiers behind him continued to sound rapidly, and the shrill metal sound still spread far away even in the rumbling artillery fire. Although it seemed that Gao Siji's Chinese army was the first to be frantically assaulted by the opponent's nearly 60,000 cavalry at this time, it also gave the Tiance army an excellent opportunity to annihilate the enemy. The Modao Battalion and the Seventh Corps, which had carried out the retreat mission, fought from west to east and from east to west, and began to encircle the entire Uighur army. The war gradually entered the white heat, whether it was the Modao Battalion and the Seventh Corps, which were carrying out the task of encircling and annihilating the entire Uighur army on the periphery, or Kulan and Tiele, who were surrounded but had found the position of the weakest Chinese army of the Tiance Army, they all pressed the treasure on themselves, and they were all betting that they could knock out the other party before they could defeat them. Therefore, Gao Siji was on the front line of the Chinese army, commanding the mechanical crossbow to fire bursts of rockets in front to form a tight fire blockade line, blocking the Kulan army, and after the mortar detachment went out to carry out the artillery bombardment regardless of life and death, the artillery that gradually adjusted the direction also began to be put into the battlefield one after another, and the rumbling shells began to explode in the front.

Gao Siji's fire cover did not let Ju Lan give up, on the contrary, such a large-scale fire cover made him firm in his thoughts, and his iron-blooded cavalry had gradually adapted to the bombardment of the opponent's strong firepower when he personally charged into battle, and began to hug the horse's neck regardless of the net name assault, and even in order to achieve the goal, he didn't care about the two wings of the Tiance Army's step-by-step pressing, and single-mindedly broke the blockade in front of him and took Gao Siji's Chinese army.

"Damn, why did the main Uighur army rush towards the lieutenant marshal?" In the fierce battle, Shi Jian saw that the Uighur army in front of him almost ignored the fierce attack on his side, and turned his head directly to the south, and was immediately frightened.

"Pro-Guard, follow me to rescue the deputy marshal, blow the horn for me, assault the whole army, and kill me." Shi Jian roared angrily and led the personal guards and reserves around him to immediately step forward in the direction of Gao Siji, and at the same time blew the horn of the whole army's assault, and suddenly all the soldiers of the Modao Battalion began to attack as a whole and counterattack. Numerous bullets were fired as the warriors galloped, and many of them did not even have time to reload, took out their bayonets from behind them, loaded them, and stabbed them at the Uighur cavalry galloping forward. This battlefield was suddenly chaotic after the Modao Battalion was put into a counteroffensive, bullets flew in the crowd, and the mortar brigade moved the mortars to the front line, and countless shells rose into the sky in a hurry, setting off a boundless bloody rain. The Modao battalion's all-out counteroffensive made the Kulan Corps almost unable to carry out the order to attack, and the 40,000 troops on their flanks went all out to attack themselves, and if they didn't fight back, they were afraid that the entire team would be completely destroyed by the other party in a short period of time. Because although the other party is an infantryman, it seems that the appearance of the crowd is no less than his own, and with the unique fire support, Kulan can't do it with all his might. Even if his own vanguard has already arrived in front of the opponent's Chinese army, as long as he follows up, he can definitely rely on the advantage of cavalry to quickly cross the opponent's position. As long as the cavalry rushes into the position of the advanced troops, the advantage of the cavalry will be infinitely magnified. But it was because of the surprise attack given to them by the flank infantry that the supporting cavalry could not follow up in time and gave the other party a chance to adjust, so they were all killed by the concentrated fire less than 20 zhang away from the opponent's position.

What Kulan could do at this time was to make Tiele give up the entanglement with Us'er and lead the main force of the army to support him. Only when the two armies work together can they have enough troops to break through the blockade of the other side and complete the final task to defeat the other side. Therefore, Julan directly asked the guards to blow the horn to greet Tiele in the hope of getting support. It's just that what surprised and puzzled him was that Tie Le's side was at the same time coming an order to move closer to him.

At this time, Tiele was not only facing the attack of 40,000 men of Us'er's Seventh Corps, but even more men's and horses' shouts came from behind him. Chai Jia's headquarters was already less than a few miles away from the battlefield at this time. Because of the rapid march of Chai Jia's department, almost all the soldiers came on war horses, and the journey of more than 100 miles relied on war horses to arrive in more than half a day. Speaking of which, this speed is not only related to the actual weight reduction of the war horse, in addition to the soldiers urging the war horse to speed up. After the popularization of rifles, in fact, the weight of the equipment that individual soldiers of the Tiance Army needed to carry was much smaller than before. The bulky armor was all removed, and all the soldiers of the army were dressed in uniform combat uniforms, so that after the actual armor of more than 20 catties was abandoned, only rifles and bullets were left, and a few grenades were distributed to each person. In this way, the weight of the war horse is reduced, and the speed is naturally faster than before.

However, when Chai Jia arrived, Wu Si'er had already entered the counteroffensive like Chai Jia, although the offensive of the Seventh Corps was not as sharp as the Modao Battalion, but after all, the Seventh Corps was brought out by Gao Siji, and the entire corps was a bit like Gao Siji's character, even if it was attacking, it was different from the Thunder Wan Jun of the Modao Battalion, but it continued to impact Tiele layer after layer like flowing water waves. The hit rate of 40,000 rifles continued to rise as they approached, and Tieler's cavalry fell in pieces, and the neighing of countless horses made Tiele wake up suddenly. He had thrown all his troops into the south like Kulan, and planned to advance south with Kulan. However, the tragedy of his own men being killed in pieces made him immediately adjust his deployment after sobering up, trying to counter the counterattack of the Seventh Corps. But at this time, the dense attack method of the Seventh Corps made Tiele suffer. During the offensive, the Seventh Corps strictly adhered to the principle of the three-three system, and each unit covered each other, attacking the Uighur army formation one after another, cutting off the huge Uighur army formation bit by bit like a blunt knife cutting through flesh. Tiele didn't understand it at first, so he rushed into his troops and was caught off guard, and the first wave of counterattacks was almost wiped out by Us'er. After the huge casualties and sacrifices, Tiele began to be overwhelmed, especially when the sound of countless people neighing and shouting began to appear on the distant horizon, which made him think about whether it was time to retreat. So far, neither Kulan nor himself has been able to break through the opponent's defensive line, but the casualties of his various armies have approached the limit, and if he continues to fight, he is afraid that the alliance army of all ethnic groups in his hands will collapse immediately. Therefore, when Kulan sounded the horn and asked him to send troops to support, he decisively began to summon Kulan to lead an army to join him, after all, although Kulan's troops suffered heavy casualties, they were all Uighur descendants, and only the descendants were able to suppress these tribal alliances.

The connection between Julan and Tiele Gao Siji had no way to figure it out, in fact, he didn't hear the communication horn between them at all, at this time, he began to counterattack against the trend after commanding the front-line troops to stabilize their positions, relying on the mechanical crossbow to block the front to form a huge explosion to blow up the opponent's formed cavalry assault, and the infantry of the two battalions began to advance little by little. Grenades exploded in front of them as the warriors struck, blowing away the Uighur cavalry that had rushed forward. At the same time, the rifles in their hands kept firing, because there were so many Uighurs in front of them that these days the soldiers of the army did not even take careful aim, and fired the bullets directly at the crowded places at the fastest rate, and then pulled the bolt to shoot again.

On the one hand, it was conducive to the large-scale destruction of opponents with firepower weapons such as artillery and mechanical crossbows, and on the other hand, Gao Siji also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to force the other side to surrender, at least the tribal alliance forces fighting with the Seventh Corps had the possibility of forcing them to surrender, and besides, anything could happen on the battlefield, and the last force of the Uighurs might not be able to be surrendered by himself.

However, it is obvious that when Gao Siji had this thought, what he didn't expect was that Chai Jia had already joined the battlefield at this time, and began to make a detour to the northeast, that is, to intervene from the north of Wusi'er, and suddenly disrupted the arrangement of Gao Siji's siege and turned it into a complete encirclement on all sides. Although Chai Jia finally captured the supreme commander of Kupila alive, Tiele, he still did not make Gao Siji happy, and even after the war, Chai Jia did not dare to appear in front of Gao Siji for a while, for fear of being scolded to death by the other party.

However, at this time, Chai Jia quickly collapsed Tiele's troops after joining the battle, there were enemies on all sides, and they would face the enemy's dense bullet fire everywhere, and the status quo that they would die at any time made these tribal alliances completely collapse at this moment, and countless soldiers could no longer be restrained by orders, and the soldiers who lost their confidence in battle and were frightened by the tragic casualties began to brainlessly break through in all directions, hoping to find a way to escape from this terrible hell. They themselves have a large number of people, so if they do, they will directly put Kulan's side in a completely desperate situation, and the whole battle will also begin to move towards the final ending. However, just when Gao Siji breathed a sigh of relief and was planning whether to stop and let people come forward to surrender, there was a change on Kulan's side, which made him fall short in the end.