Text: Volume 12, Chapter 1, Section 13: Killing Hu Yuan (1)
Twenty miles east of the White Horse River, an unnamed grassland.
Zhao Kaishan led more than 40,000 soldiers of the Huben battalion to march forward, Li Meng, the general of the first battalion, and Zhao Chuanwu, the general of the second battalion, each led the soldiers of the headquarters to live in the front, and Wei Huang, the general of the third battalion, led more than 7,000 elite firecrackers under his command to advance in front of the infantry army, lined up in three rows of huge horizontal formations, and moved forward.
At the same time, the general Kong Xuan led more than 7,000 iron cavalry soldiers to jog on the left flank of the main army, and the iron cavalry soldiers had formed a huge cone-shaped cavalry formation, and they could charge the Mongolian army in the distance only after Zhao Kaishan's order.
And Zhao Kaishan lived in the rear of the Chinese army with Jin Zhao, the general of the artillery battalion, and Jin Zhan, the general of the baggage battalion.
At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Huguang, also led 30,000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army to form a huge phalanx, which marched in unison on the right flank of the Huben camp army. Lu Xiangsheng took 10,000 hoplites as the pioneers, and these 10,000 hoplites imitated the Hanwei army, all equipped with heavy spears, and the first three rows of soldiers were also equipped with large shields, all of which were prepared in advance by Lu Xiangsheng to deal with the Mongolian iron cavalry.
The rest of the army, in addition to the 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers who roamed the right flank of the army, the remaining 17,000 were composed of thousands of archers and sword and shield men, which were used as melee forces.
At this time, the two armies of the Tiger Camp and the Tianxiong Army marched together, like two huge iron pincers on the left and right, towards the 60,000 Mongolian iron cavalry army that was charging!
"Herald! The army is 500 paces away from the enemy and stops advancing! ”
Zhao Kaishan stood on the pole car of the Chinese army and said loudly. The herald next to him immediately blew the horn, and the war drums of the Chinese army in the Huben camp suddenly beat up, and more than 40,000 soldiers in the Huben battalion roared in unison with the sound of war drums, echoing the generals sent by the Chinese army.
The officers and men of the Tianxiong Army, who were advancing in unison on the right flank of the Huben battalion, also received an order from Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Huguang, and were also preparing to stop advancing when they were 500 paces away from the enemy and prepare to meet the enemy. At this time, 30,000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army also chanted "Wansheng" in response to the general order of the Chinese army.
The two sides are five hundred paces apart!
More than 30,000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and more than 40,000 soldiers of the Huben Battalion stopped advancing almost at the same time, and began to quickly adjust the formation of the army, preparing to kill the Tartars.
Ten large and small leaders, including the Khalkha Department, the Saiyin Noyan Department, and the Chechen Khan Department, who were leading the 60,000 Mongolian iron cavalry army to charge, were already shocked, and the neat pace and strict military formation of tens of thousands of Ming troops in the distance all showed that the tens of thousands of Ming troops who were waiting for the battle were an unusually elite and strong army!
"I'm afraid this battle won't be good!"
All of a sudden, this thought flashed in the hearts of all the Mongolian leaders of the outer domains, and the fighting spirit in everyone's hearts instantly diminished a lot.
However, as the saying goes, there is no turning back when the bow is opened, and the remaining ten leaders of each department can only lead the army to rush up, otherwise the remaining 60,000 iron cavalry troops will all die here.
If it is still an ordinary defeat, it is okay, as long as the remnants of the various departments flee back and rest and recuperate for more than ten years with their tails between their legs, then the strength of the tribe can be restored. However, once this battle is defeated, it is not a matter of damage to the strength of the tribe, but of being exterminated!
Therefore, even if these 60,000 Mongolian iron horsemen were all afraid, they still rode their horses and charged, and almost no one gave up charging to meet the enemy.
The two sides are two hundred paces apart!
At this time, Zhao Kaishan had already ordered the artillery battalion to attack, and Jin Zhao, the general of the Huben battalion artillery battalion, had already led his troops to rush to the front of the army.
At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng had also ordered the 6,000 strong archers in the army to stand by and prepare for a salvo.
The two sides are one hundred and fifty steps apart!
Seeing this, Zhao Kaishan suddenly shouted: "Fire!" ”
Jin Zhao, the general of the artillery battalion, saw that the Chinese army's trumpet flag was shaking violently, and he also shouted: "Big Buddha Lang machine!" Fire! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
With the continuous three rounds of salvo fire from the 30 Great Buddha cannons, the Mongolian iron cavalry army that was charging at high speed suffered a blow to the head, and the hundreds of Mongolian iron cavalry led by it were beaten into mutilated corpses by the dense cannons.
At this moment, Jin Zhao, the general of the artillery battalion, shouted again: "Tiger Venerable Cannon!" Fire! ”
At this time, the Mongolian Iron Cavalry Army had rushed to a place a hundred steps away from the Ming Army, and at this moment, the forty Tiger Zun cannons in front of the Tiger Camp began to exert their might, and the gunners were loaded with scattered bullets, accompanied by bursts of dazzling firelight, and a dense barrage swept towards the Mongolian Iron Cavalry Army, and instantly cut off a thick layer of the dense Iron Cavalry Army!
Even the Mongol leader of the Outer Domain, who led the charge, was shot and killed by the dense fire of the Huzun cannon, including the leader of the Saiyin Noyan tribe!
Until this time, the Mongolian iron cavalry army of the outer domain had lost thousands of troops under the fierce blows of the Huben battalion, but they did not even rush to the front of the Ming army!
Under the continuous blows of the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion, the Mongolian Iron Cavalry of the Outer Domain had rushed to a distance of eighty paces away from the soldiers of the Ming army, and the two sides were about to start hand-to-hand combat in close combat!
At this time, Jin Zhao, the general of the artillery battalion, ordered forty divine machine gun trucks to start firing, and at the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also ordered 6,000 strong archers to fire a salvo.
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”
The rain of arrows formed by forty divine artillery carriages and six thousand strong archers at the same time was extremely terrifying, and the dense rain of arrows instantly formed a dark cloud that covered the sky and the sun, and after crossing the distance in front of the formation that was only sixty or seventy steps wide, it smashed into the formation of the Mongolian iron cavalry army of the outer domain, and smashed the dense Mongolian iron cavalry formation into a huge depression. The Ming army soldiers only fired a volley, and inflicted at least 3,000 casualties on the Mongolian iron cavalry!
What's more, at this time, the formation of the Mongolian Iron Cavalry Army of the Outer Domain has been completely out of order, even if it rushes to the front of the Ming army, it is impossible to attack the indestructible phalanx of the Tiger Camp and the Tianxiong Army!
At this time, Jin Zhao, the general of the artillery battalion, had already led the soldiers of the artillery battalion to withdraw to the Chinese army of the Huben camp to avoid the enemy's edge, while Wei Huang, the general of the C battalion, led more than 7,000 elite bird guns to stick to the horizontal formation, and the black bird guns in the hands of the soldiers steadily pointed to the Mongolian iron cavalry army that had rushed to thirty steps away, waiting for the order of the main general.
"Soldiers! Preparation! Put! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
More than 7,000 elite bird-bearers took turns in three rows
The volley instantly rose in front of the Tiger Ben camp and billowing smoke, and the dense lead was like a huge war knife, instantly turning the front army of the Mongolian Iron Cavalry Army of the Outer Domain into corpses on the ground. Of the remaining seven leaders of the Mongolian tribes of the outer domain, only one of them was the leader of the Khalkha tribe, and the rest of them, along with their own soldiers, died under the cavalry of thousands of birds!
This round of salvo of the soldiers of the C Battalion of the Tiger Battalion also became the last straw that overwhelmed the Mongolian Iron Cavalry Army of the Outer Domain, and the remaining Mongolian Iron Cavalry Front Army collapsed on the spot, and tens of thousands of Mongolian Iron Cavalry turned their horses and fled behind them, colliding with the main army rushing up from the rear in an instant.
The remaining 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry of the outer domains could not rush in front of the Ming army, so they trampled on the battlefield and became a mess!
Zhao Kaishan and Lu Xiangsheng, who were fighting in the command post army, were overjoyed when they saw this, and the two ordered the whole army to attack almost at the same time, ordering two iron cavalry on both flanks of the army to immediately rush up to "cut wheat", and at the same time led the army of foot soldiers to press up, constantly encroaching on the roundabout space of the Mongolian iron cavalry army, and shooting the Tartar iron cavalry with fire guns and strong bows.
After receiving the order of the commander-in-chief, Kong Xuan, the general of the Huben Battalion, who had already been impatient, immediately shouted: "Soldiers, rush!" Scatter the Tartars, kill! ”
More than 7,000 iron cavalry soldiers roared in unison, followed by Kong Xuan and launched a charge, the huge cone-shaped cavalry formation composed of iron cavalry soldiers crashed into the back waist of the Mongolian cavalry formation, and the Mongolian army that had begun to break up knocked people on their backs, and many Mongolian soldiers were scattered and fled, and died in the steppe.
And the 3,000 Tianxiong Army Iron Cavalry also formed a formation and inserted into the Mongolian army from the right flank, which accelerated the defeat of the Mongolian Iron Cavalry. In this battle, tens of thousands of Mongolian iron horsemen from foreign domains have been powerless, and defeat is a foregone conclusion!
In the midst of the chaotic Mongol army, the Khalkha leaders were already extremely desperate, fleeing in all directions under the protection of hundreds of diehards, and could no longer care about gathering the defeated army and fighting again, at this time saving their lives was far more realistic than winning the war, and their own lives seemed to be much more important than the prospects of the tribe. As for what the future holds, that's for later, so let's survive first and then worry about the rest!
In this way, under the protection of hundreds of die-hard iron cavalry, the leader of the Khalkha tribe successfully escaped the onslaught of the 7,000 iron cavalry of the Tiger Battalion, evaded the pursuit of the 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, and finally escaped from the north of the battlefield.
Moreover, in the midst of the chaos, thousands of Mongolian cavalry from the outer vassals followed, following the Khalkha chieftain and fleeing towards the north.
At this time, Zhao Kaishan and Lu Xiangsheng are leading all the troops to encircle and annihilate the tens of thousands of foreign Mongolian routs on the battlefield, although the two also want to chase and kill the thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry who fled north, but they are more than willing to do enough, after all, the iron cavalry army in the hands of the two is only 10,000 people, and it is not easy to surround the tens of thousands of rout soldiers on the battlefield!
Just when Zhao Kaishan and Lu Xiangsheng looked at the thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry of foreign domains who had fled north and felt regretful, they suddenly found that billowing smoke appeared on the north side of the battlefield.
In this way, Zhao Kaishan and Lu Xiangsheng put their minds at ease and began to concentrate on commanding the army to encircle and annihilate the tens of thousands of Mongolian troops of the outer domains who had been encircled! (https:)
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