Chapter 377: Fighting the Uighurs Again
"Command the whole army, blow the trumpet of the charge, and the whole army will assault." When Chai Jia arrived, it happened to be when Zhang Sheng asked the Anxi battalion to counterattack the whole army, Zhang Chaofeng was shot down by Li San'er and Su Xiaohu, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, which just made the Guiyi Army fight fiercely for most of the night after the tight string was directly broken, and the tragic death and the killing of the commander drove the entire army to completely collapse, and the soldiers of the Guiyi Army who originally carried out the military order and charged forward suddenly stopped when they heard the shouts from the rear, and Zhang Sheng seized the opportunity to counterattack and began to retreat. In this way, the formation of the entire army began to retreat, and without waiting for the soldiers on the front line to retreat, those directly subordinate troops who were defending Zhang Chaofeng in the Chinese army actually gave up the Chinese army at this time and began to retreat collectively.
"Lao Chai hurriedly divided a detachment of men and horses to rush to Xicheng to meet General Gao Siji." In the melee, Su Xiaohu took the Flying Eagle Brigade to grab Zhang Chaofeng, who didn't know whether he was dead or alive, against the crowd, and broke into front of Chai Jia with difficulty, and directly asked Chai Jia to support Gao Siji.
"Xiaohu, there's nothing wrong with General Gao, right? He's a huge cavalry corps of more than 50,000 people. Chai Jia nodded when he saw Zhang Chaofeng led by Su Xiaohu, and asked in a little surprise.
"Lao Chai, you don't know, Cao Rengui's troops are all in the west, and they must have been lurking on the side before, thinking about watching us fight with the two tigers of the Guiyi Army and then reap the benefits of the fishermen, but now they will not think like this, but converge with the Anxi Uighurs from Datun City to flank the Gaosi Successor Corps." Su Xiaohu said: "According to the current time calculation, I am afraid that Gao Siji has already fought with the Anxi Uighurs, and it will not be good to suffer the enemy on his back at that time." ”
"Go and inform Chen Yushi of the former army, let him lead the two battalions of troops to Xicheng immediately, Xiaohu, you send a few people to follow Chen Yushi." Chai Jia instructed the guards to quickly go to the front army to convey the message, and at the same time took Su Xiaohu to quickly move forward, Shazhou City is now in his hands without any doubt, and the next thing is to find a way to end the battle as soon as possible, and gather all the Guiyi troops that have been scattered, once these chaotic soldiers get out of control, they will inevitably cause endless harm. After the Tiance army entered the city, they immediately dispersed, and searched separately in a team of more than ten or twenty people, and all the rebels were killed on the spot except for putting down their arms and surrendering and then being escorted away, and the fighting did not disappear because of the entry and exit of the Tiance army's brigade, but became more and more intense. However, Su Xiaohu didn't have so much patience, and after throwing Zhang Chaofeng to the army doctor, he took the Flying Eagle Brigade to escort the artillery battalion and began to head towards Xicheng.
At this time, Gao Siji, who was outside the Xicheng and led to the Datun City Baili Pass, had already caught fire with the cavalry of the Anxi Uighurs, but Gao Siji did not have the upper hand at first, because this cavalry faintly made him a little familiar, to be precise, it was a little similar to the cavalry tactics of the previous Shatuo people, so many of the cavalry corps in the Shatuo people were a little stunned in the battle, but it also caused many soldiers to be killed and injured between this stunned gods.
Coming to his senses, Gao Siji ordered the first part to continue the charge, fighting one-on-one to entangle the pace of the Anxi Uighur attack, while the other part immediately dismounted and built a position to counterattack. Therefore, after two rounds of charges, after returning to his own position in the east, Us'er took a breath and immediately joined the attack. The accompanying mechanical crossbow troops also began to urgently unload the equipment and crossbow arrows on horseback and then quickly equip them, all of them had thousands of war horses dragging all kinds of equipment, so they could not provide any help to Gao Siji's corps for a while. However, at this time, Gao Siji did not mean to ask for fire support, and the other party could see that he did not go all out. But the more this happened, the more Gao Siji was surprised, his 50,000 cavalry was naturally huge, but the other party obviously had no intention of retreating after knowing his strength, especially in the few encounters just now, his own combat strength The other party has figured it out, so there are only two reasons why the other party does not retreat, one is that the strength is not only in front of them, the other party still has troops hidden in the dark, and the other is that the other party has reinforcements, and these people need to drag themselves until the other party's reinforcements arrive.
Thinking of this, Gao Siji's brows began to wrinkle, Gao Siji is different from other generals, he is not only superb in force, but more importantly, thoughtful, and has a natural sense of sensitivity for large-scale corps operations, so as soon as he thought about it, Gao Siji began to adjust the position that had just been hastily constructed, relying on the opportunity of Wu Si'er to just get off the horse and enter the formation, he immediately arranged the entire position into an oval garden formation, and surrounded the mechanical crossbow in the middle, At the same time, the one hundred and fifty mechanical crossbows of the mechanical crossbows were arranged in three directions, except for one direction aimed at the military formation of the Anxi Uighurs, and the other was facing the sandbank city to the east. Gao Siji always maintained a sense of vigilance on the Shazhou side, if the Shazhou side went well, then the defeated Guiyi army and Cao Rengui's troops would definitely retreat into Datun City, and the purpose of the Anxi Uighur cavalry was to meet the defeated Guiyi army. Moreover, this is also the purpose of Wan Yi who ordered him to attack the Uighurs first, and only by suppressing the Uighur invasion can all the defeated Guiyi army be intercepted in the territory of Shazhou, and their hope of fleeing to Anxi will be cut off.
Gao Siji's idea soon let his military array begin to change with his own mind, the advantage of the garden array is that the toughness is particularly great, no matter where the enemy comes from, he will be at ease by himself, so after the mechanical crossbow is assembled, he immediately entered the battle, countless crossbow arrows began to rise in the air, box after box of crossbow arrows was quickly opened, ten crossbow arrows were quickly thrown down after being fired, and the power of the continuous explosion made the Uighurs' continuous charge suddenly come to a halt, In fact, the most feared thing in the cavalry charge is the mechanical crossbow, which is similar to the machine gun of later generations, and the fastest fire weapon is the strongest weapon of the cavalry. This is also the reason why a large number of mechanical crossbows and crossbow arrows in the northwest military supplies were transported to Suzhou and then transferred to Guazhou during this period.
"After all, it was split with the Gaochang Uighurs, and it seems that the Gaochang side did not pass on the experience of fighting against the Tiance Army to Anxi, otherwise tonight's battle would really be difficult to fight." Gao Siji asked the mechanical crossbow to stop firing, remained suppressed, and muttered to himself as he watched the gunfire from the front line. The tactics and technical and tactical characteristics of the Tiance army, coupled with the new weapons, are basically a trick in front of unfamiliar people, so after the round of shooting just now, the Uighurs did not take precautions as expected, which is also the meaning of Gao Siji's words just now, the Uighurs now occupy the main route of the Tiance army's march into Anxi, whether it is the hometown of Gaochang Yanqi in the north, or the Datun city of Boxian in the south, Khotan and other places are the Uighurs' sphere of influence, and they have been operating this place for a long time. With a strong military force and ruling base, if the Tiance Army rashly marches, it is only afraid that it will cause a chain reaction.
"Report, Deputy Marshal Qiyu, there is a large army on the sandbank, fifty miles away from our army." Gao Siji saw that the movement on the side of the Uighur army had just subsided, and the latest information came from his side, and it seemed that the dust had settled on the sandbank.
"You go to the interrogation immediately, and the Chai Jia department that entered the city immediately dispatched a powerful department to come to the aid immediately." Almost without thinking, Gao Siji asked the dark guard to quickly send an order, informing the sandbank to send troops to support.
"Ordered Us'er, and the vanguard immediately went out to attack and advance, drawing the Uighurs over. They definitely got the news too. Gao Siji asked his relatives to immediately notify Us'er to send out the forward attack to advance, and the flames of war that had gradually subsided were rekindled, and the dense bullets roared towards the Uighurs as the 10,000 men under Us'er crossed the main formation, and the unprepared Uighur cavalry in front was beaten into a sieve, and even the horses were all overturned to the ground.
Us'er's attack directly emptied a large area in front of him, and the Uighur cavalry who reacted suddenly began to make noise, and the already chaotic deployment became messy again at this time, and the most terrible thing was that the mechanical crossbow was replaced with a crossbow bolt with fire oil at this time, and after it was launched, it exploded and began to burn, and it was originally just a spark but now it became a flame. In this way, the Uighurs were lit up, and their own side was hidden in the darkness, and the troops of the advancing Usr successfully avoided the cavalry counterattack of most of the Uighur cavalry, and the rifle bullets in their hands were even more eye-catching, and the rows of them were killed on the spot.
The Uighur cavalry commander was furious with the Uighur cavalry's behavior, and the news that Cao Rengui had already led his troops to come at this time naturally did not want to wait any longer, and almost instantly began to order the cavalry to assault and fight back the troops of Usir. However, at this time, Gao Siji's Chinese army also received the latest order, and the undulating horn made Wu Si'er begin to steady the pace of the attack, and some of the troops stopped on the spot and began to counterattack, while the previous troops also began to cover each other and retreat. Now that the Uighurs have charged, Us's men and horses have completed their mission, and the rest must find a way to retreat.
"General, the mechanical crossbow on the deputy marshal's side has begun to fire, this is a signal for us to retreat, let's withdraw quickly." The captain of Wus'er's personal guard saw the mechanical crossbow shooting at his side, and immediately understood Gao Siji's thoughts, and hurriedly pulled Wusi'er and began to retreat, more than 10,000 people just came out to play a cup of tea and withdrew to the garden formation, but those Uighur cavalry who followed did not have so good luck, and the rhythm of the charge was disrupted by the mechanical crossbow, and then rushed into the gun array that Gao Siji arranged on the front line to cover the retreat of Wusi'er, Almost instantly, 5,000 soldiers of the Tiance Army raised the barrels of their guns in the darkness and opened fire on the swarming Uighur cavalry, and the sound of gunfire sounded like thunder, and the cavalry was instantly killed by bullets, and as these cavalry were killed, the subsequent Uighur cavalry could not stop the car and continued to rush in.
"Let Us'er take over the command of Yan Chixia, and be sure to stop the Uighurs for me, and definitely not let them rush into the inside of the position." As soon as Gao Siji's order was given, Us'er roared angrily, and more than 10,000 people immediately joined the battle, and the sound of gunfire poured out towards the Uighurs like a torrential rain, which made the Anxi Uighurs, who had never seen the Tiance army shoot in a group, unable to cope for a while, and even the charge with their proud cavalry was delayed.
The addition of Us'er stabilized the situation, but Gao Siji turned his head to look at the east in the darkness and shook his head, secretly calculating the time, for him, it was not a big problem for the Uighurs to be exposed, but he had been ping pong for so long again, if Cao Rengui wanted to go to Anxi, then this place is the only way to leave the mountain pass, I am afraid that this guy wants to ambush him.
"Is there any news from the Dark Guard?" Gao Siji asked the captain of the guard around him to personally lead the team to the front to guard, and the mechanical crossbow was always ready. "Order the troops to raise the multicolored rockets and fire them to the east." With a wave of his hand, a colorful light quickly rose from behind him and passed towards the east, and the dark wasteland was illuminated by this huge pillar of light, and the reflection of the snow was almost invisible.
"It seems that it is coming, let Yan Chixia prepare it immediately, and start firing immediately after half a cup of tea." After Wu Si'er replaced Yan Chixia, the general who was promoted by Gao Siji began to silently clench the spear in his hand, and after counting the time silently, he fired directly without thinking about it, and a gunshot rang out in the Dongfang Garden array, followed by countless bullets following Yan Chixia's pointing and roaring away.
"Order the mechanical crossbow to shoot immediately." Gao Siji let the fifty mechanical crossbows facing the east open fire in an instant, and the crossbow arrows contaminated with fire oil swept through the sky at a rapid speed, carrying countless fires directly towards the east.
In just an instant, countless black shadows completely dissipated in these storms, and the firelight brought by the crossbow arrows also illuminated the entire battlefield, and the Guiyi Army finally came, to be precise, the 50,000 horses under Cao Rengui.
"The whole army gives it a go." Gao Siji, who was attacked by both sides, completely let go of his mind, and the 50,000-strong army counterattacked with the whole army, and it was in an instant that he forcibly suppressed the arrogance of Cao Rengui and the Uighurs. However, as soon as Gao Siji's side opened fire, the Uighurs quickly understood what was going on, so the pressure on Us'er began to skyrocket. Even if Gao Siji personally controlled the mechanical crossbow of the last side of the zigzag and kept supporting the east and west, the two sides still could not face the simultaneous attack of this enemy who was almost several times his own at the same time, and what was even worse was that the crossbow arrow reserve of the mechanical crossbow fell at a straight line speed under this full force shooting, which means that if the reinforcements in Sandbank City could not arrive before the crossbow arrows of the mechanical crossbow were exhausted, Gao Siji could only retreat at most, and the task assigned by Wan Yi was probably not completed.
"Send another colorful rocket." Gao Siji had just given the order to go down, only to see a long rainbow suddenly roaring towards him in the distance in the east.
"Chai Jia's training in the past two years has been good." Gao Siji saw Changhong nodding and smiling in the air, and the brow that had been frowning became soothed again.