Chapter 320: Yan Ran Legong

"Great Marshal, the enemy's position has begun to waver. You see that the Tatar cavalry on the right flank has retreated. Liu Yi always paid attention to the situation on the battlefield, and naturally discovered the movement of the Tatar cavalry for the first time.

"The original combat effectiveness of the Tatar cavalry is not as strong as that of the Tartars, and they also lack the courage to fight to the death." Chen Fan nodded inadvertently and said, "Immediately send a message to Baixin and ask them to find a way to organize the coalition cavalry to launch a counterattack, the breakthrough in this battle has appeared." ”

Just when Liu Yi hurriedly went to convey Chen Fan's order, Chen Fan personally took over the command of the artillery battalion, and directly ordered all the artillery units to start bombarding the forward position where Ge Cunzhou was located, and the two hundred cannons frantically shelled the Datar cavalry formation that had begun to retreat, and only three rounds of attacks directly caused the retreat of the Datar cavalry to completely collapse, and then the infantry and Baixin's coalition cavalry units that had been shooting in the trenches on Ge Cunzhou's side began to stand up and launch a counterattack, Following the retreat of the Datar cavalry, he attacked the camp of the Datars and the Datars.

After seeing Ge Cunzhou launch a counterattack, Chen Fan asked the mechanical crossbow troops to follow the covering action, and the liberated artillery troops began to attack the army of the Gang Warriors with all their might, and the two hundred cannons were a huge disaster no matter where they were thrown, and the whirlwind of death set off by this powerful metal wave in the Gang Gang army directly tore apart the formations of all the Gang Warriors army on the front line in the round after round of explosions. Moreover, in this round of explosions, the momentum of the army of the Gang was gradually exhausted. And the most fatal thing is that after Chen Fan invested the strength of the grassland cavalry battalion, the sudden increase of 30,000 rifles on the front line made it impossible for Huang Jiasi to break through to the range of 300 meters in front of the Tiance army.

At this time, Li Feixue and Gao Siji, who were in the rear, had a more important task than the front line, they needed to withstand the pressure of the retreat of the Tartar cavalry, and some of the Tartar cavalry who retreated in advance had even begun to reverse the attack on Gao Siji's front. You must know that the position prepared by Gao Siji in advance does not have the same solid trenches and artillery support as the frontal position, so as soon as the number of Tatar cavalry retreated, the pressure on Gao Siji increased a lot.

Gao Siji had roughly guessed the changes on Ge Cunzhou's side at this time, once the Tatar cavalry retreated, then they would inevitably be pressed by the whole army, so he had to resist the retreating Tatar cavalry no matter what, otherwise once they fled from the battlefield, then the follow-up battle would not be able to fight.

Thinking of this, Gao Siji began to change the operational deployment, and ordered all the cavalry of the Ninth Army to dismount and fight immediately let go of the position and get on their horses, pull out the cavalry Tang knife, and begin to carry out the task of charging and killing, so as to attack and delay the retreat of the Tartars, and create more opportunities and time for Ge Cunzhou's brigade to arrive at the scene.

The Ninth Army was originally an iron cavalry formed by a Shatuo cavalry, and after the implementation of the mixed plan of the whole army, it was strengthened as the main cavalry force, so once it became a cavalry on the horse, it was more fierce than dismounting and fighting gunfights, with 30,000 people against nearly 50,000 people who retreated from Datar, the opponent should be fighting the other side retreating, and this gang of outlaws could not break through under the strong resistance of the Ninth Army, and then was pressed by Ge Cunzhou's army, thus beginning the pace of their own destruction.

With the blessing of the artillery battalion, the opportunity for a counterattack on the front line gradually took shape, and the cavalry of the coalition army of the steppe tribes was also concentrated by Chen Fan on the left flank, and the two armies of Lu Yi and Qian Ning began to walk out of their positions with the support of the artillery battalion, pressing step by step, and simply suppressed the more than 100,000 troops of the Grassland from attacking to retreating.

"Order the ballista unit to follow the infantry and maintain the intensity of fire support." Chen Fan watched Lu Yi and Qian Ning's troops advance forward and began to let the ballista troops follow, while at the same time the artillery battalion position began to move, and the most mobile mechanical crossbow began to withdraw from the artillery position and participate in the pursuit operation.

"The artillery units immediately carried out shelling operations at maximum range." Chen Fan looked at the two hundred artillery pieces beside him and gave the final order. At this time, the battle had been fought all afternoon, and these guns had already exceeded the time limit, and if they were used again, they would inevitably affect the life of the barrels, but at this time, they couldn't take care of it, and after the last round of shells fired, Chen Fan and Liu Yi began to leave the artillery position and go forward.

At this time, Li Feixue faced the same problem as Gao Siji, and the number of the Hattars army was more than that of the Tatars, and the combat power was stronger, so he also changed his plan after his squad was suppressed and retreated, but unlike Gao Siji's cavalry hedge, he formed a half-moon-shaped position with the guard battalion, and set all the tents in the camp of the Guards along the way, and used these swarming flames to disrupt the formation of the Gunnes charge. At the same time, he ordered all the more than 30,000 people of the personal guard battalion to open fire with all their might, not to stop all the Guys, but to leave most of their men and horses, delay their retreat, and buy time for the counterattack of the main force of the Tiance Army.

At this time, on the battlefield, although the Wolves were retreating step by step, the ballistas that followed the infantry of the Tiance Army were firing explosive packs from time to time to set off bursts of explosions, and the Zombies who were threatened with death could no longer bear this endless explosion and death, and swarmed to turn their horses' heads and rushed towards their rear, even the lit tents along the way could not be cared about, and the beaten soulless soldiers rushed all the obstacles along the way, and the terrible rebellion of every army was the same, Because the people of the Tunja are in the far northwest all the year round, and even some of them still have contact with the Great Qin side, they have also received the influence of the Great Qin people's combat thoughts, and after the defeat, there is almost no rule in the slightest.

This kind of chaos also made Li Feixue's blockade more difficult, because these people couldn't escape according to the normal path at all, so almost in a short period of time, Li Feixue's plan fell through, and his half-moon-shaped position After stopping these Hangas, the follow-up Hangas rebels actually chose to bypass this position and leave here from other areas.

"Order the whole army to mount and pursue immediately." Li Feixue couldn't care about anything else at this time, and directly resorted to Gao Siji's method and ordered the pro-guard battalion to participate in the pursuit. In this way, the 30,000 people of the guard battalion also joined the battle, which lasted for three days and three nights.

The great changes of the Hujia people obviously also made Lu Yi and Qian Ning see the follow-up methods, but unlike Lu Yi's direct battalion, all the members were cavalry, Qian Ning could only watch the direct battalion get on the horse and roar away, and the tribal coalition troops in the accompanying grassland even looked back at these Tiance Army infantry who were fighting on the ground, so Qian Ning felt that this was a sarcasm for him.

"Order the heralds, all the men and horses participating in the pursuit on the front line will be handed over to Lu Yi to command, all in all, we must annihilate all the main forces of the Qiangs, otherwise we will not give up." Seeing this scene, Chen Fan immediately asked the herald to come forward and catch up with Lu Yi, and let him be responsible for commanding all the cavalry units to participate in the battle against the Pygsians. Channing's troops took over the battle of Gao Siji and drove these land snakes to the Tatars' residence.

After arranging these, Chen Fan asked Liu Yi to quickly convey the battle report to the base camp, and he took the rest of the men and horses to follow Qian Ning. After the Tiance army pressed the border, the Tatars tried to make the last resistance, but after the artillery troops arrived and opened fire on the tents of the Tatar royal court, everything began to dissipate, and the Tatars quickly sent messengers to see Chen Fan to try to ease the atmosphere, but Chen Fan demanded that he must surrender unconditionally and hand over the leader of the Great Khan to Chang'an to ask for guilt, and all the people and horses of the Tatar headquarters dismounted and surrendered, otherwise all the tribes of the Tatars would be directly exterminated.

Such harsh conditions naturally could not satisfy the Tatar people, but at this time, Liu Yi had already cleaned up the rear battlefield, and the logistics troops who came in the snow had already transported a large amount of supplies, and all Chen Fan did not care whether the other party intended to surrender, and directly ordered Qian Ning to start attacking the location of the royal court. After the huge roar of the cannon and the boundless slaughter that it brought up lasted for a long time, Channing's infantry rushed in and began a close fight.

At this time, these battles could no longer attract Chen Fan's attention, but he searched for something on the map in the temporary marshal's tent, Liu Yi walked in and said curiously after arranging these: "Dashuai, what are you looking for on the map?" Could it be that the Tatars can have a second royal court? No, I fled here when I saw their Great Khan. ”

"I'm looking for the place where General Dou Xian Yan Ran legong back then, let's go out of Mobei this time, can't we also seal Shi Legong again?" Chen Fan said with a smile: "This is the first time that Datang has taken the initiative to go deep into this place after a hundred years, we must let everyone here know that the Han people have returned, and this place will always be the land of Datang in the future." No one is allowed to act against the will of Datang. ”

"Leave this matter to me, I'm familiar with the allusions to Yan Ran Leshi, I'll go find Yan Ran Mountain back then." Liu Yi said with great interest: "Dashuai, when the time comes, write an article for me to carve out, and then we will also go to seal the wolf Juxu once." ”

"It's so complicated, let's engrave a sentence, those who offend my Tang Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away." Chen Fan's face was solemn and said the words that everyone in this era was excited to hear: "You go to find someone to carve a large stone tablet, and collect the lives and ashes of the soldiers who died in this battle, and then use the heroic souls and remains of the martyrs to guard this Tang Boundary Monument." ”

When Liu Yi was busy doing this, Qian Ning on the front line led the army to fight for three hours and then attacked the royal court, and the guards of the Tartar royal court were killed and wounded under the repeated attacks of rifles and artillery, and the cavalry could not stop such a powerful fire impact at this time, and the most important thing was that in this era, except for the Tiance army, no one had the experience of resisting gunpowder weapons, and the war horses were frightened by this deafening explosion and could not control the formation at all, and the cavalry combat power brought by the frightened war horses was sharply reduced, and the cavalry charge could not meet the requirements at all, It was completely scattered by Qian Ning's infantry gun array, and then it was pressed step by step and suppressed in the narrow area of the royal court.

During the fierce battle, all the Tartar tribesmen who went out to participate in the battle of the Datar royal court guards were all shot on the spot by Qian Ning as an enemy, and this violent killing completely shocked all the Datar tribes at this time, making them hide in the tents and tremble, but even so, tens of thousands of tents around the royal court were concentrated by artillery, and all the people inside were blown up.

The war had reached this point, and the Great Khan of the Tartars and his ministers had no room for resistance, so when the Great Khan of the royal court was in sight, he put down his dignity, raised the white flag of exemption from war, and then came shirtless to surrender in front of Channing's army.

The Great Khan was soon escorted to Chen Fan's camp, where Channing led his army to take over everything in the court of the Tartars, and arranged for the soldiers to be repaired after all the captives were taken into custody. And Chen Fan glanced at the Great Khan of Tatar lightly and then didn't even throw the meaning of interrogation directly to the logistics department, and asked them to take it back to Chang'an, this kind of disdain deeply stung the heart of the Great Khan of Datar, and he almost had a seizure on the spot, but then he was knocked unconscious by the butt of a gun by the guards and then taken out. Also brought back by the logistics department this time were 27 dignitaries of the royal court and senior generals at all levels.

After solving the Datars, Chen Fan ordered all the Datar tribes near the royal court to immediately lead the team south to the north of Yinshan and the area south of the desert to station and graze, originally this policy was a good thing for the Tatars, but at this time, the university was full of sky, the road was rugged and difficult, and these Tatar tribes suffered a lot along the way, and there were escorts from the logistics department along the way to prevent them from escaping.

However, these have nothing to do with Chen Fan for the time being, after getting that Lu Yi's side has annihilated most of the Huang Jiasi troops, Liu Yi also began to prepare for the celebration of Yan Ran Mountain's sealing of the stone. Although there is still some distance from Yanran Mountain here, what Chen Fan is pursuing is no longer the old land of the past. Therefore, on a high mountain in the north of Datar, he led the Tiance army to climb the mountain and carve the stone to celebrate his achievements, the huge cone-shaped stele on the "offender of my Tang Dynasty, although far away will be punished" The words are huge and eye-catching, all the Tiance army burned incense and knelt on one knee under the leadership of Chen Fan, and at the same time the ashes of the fallen soldiers were also buried here, and there was another stone tablet next to the monument, which recorded in detail the course of the battle and the lives of these soldiers, so that they could always protect this land.

The grand commemorative scene then spread all over the grassland, the Han army re-came to the grassland, defeated the overlords of the northwest, Datar and Huangjiasi, and the news of the stone commemoration made all the grassland tribes deeply aware that the new Tang Dynasty had shown its strength in this war, and the Han people's deterrence of the grassland in the Han and Tang dynasties returned at this time.

At the beginning of November of the second year of the Apocalypse, Lu Yi returned south with 30,000 captives after killing Morris, the commander of the Huangjia army, so that the Northern Expedition campaign officially ended, and Chen Fan also led the team south in the snowstorm, and the news has spread throughout the northern Tang Dynasty with the large group of prisoners escorted by the Logistics Department. This battle carried forward the strength of the Tang Empire and laid the foundation for the later conquest of Anxi.