Chapter 472: Capture (Part II)
Once there is such a lethal method, Cheng Chi feels more and more at this time that the Yunzhou army is really good to command, and as soon as the battlefield situation is reported, every part of the battlefield will seek its own change in the case of completing the requirements of the commander. When Zhao Yao and Dai Mo set off with two battalions, and the instruction of "attracting the enemy to the front and being powerless to take care of others" spread throughout the line, the generals below naturally discovered the difference from the order just now. Cheng Chi must have found a back hand, and the generals below understood this, and the atmosphere on the battlefield began to change quietly. The direction of the attack that originally relied on the Longbow Battalion and the Heavy Infantry Battalion did not change, and the attack intensity was still maintained, while the other lanes began to try to add various tricks to the attack, which kept changing. At the beginning, there were those who turned the continuous attack into several echelons in rotation, and some tried to use grenadiers to continuously throw fire oil bombs, and some of them forced to open up the way forward by throwing money, and some supplemented by methods such as smoke and feints, which made the entire Dalun Mountain where the two armies faced each other more and more lively.
Zhao Yao and Dai Mo arrived at the back mountain to take a look, and the soldiers of the special battalion were still reinforcing the road. When Barrett came to report just now, there were actually only two dangling ropes, one on his foot and one on his hand, and he could barely pass, and the situation must have been thrilling. By the time the troops of the two battalions came in a big circle to the back mountain, several proposed suspension bridges had already been erected. Each simple suspension bridge is based on three ropes, which are simply tied to wooden planks and two ropes that act as handrails on either side. For the fighters of the special battalion, this is already the best that can be done in a short time.
Zhao Yao and Dai Mo naturally have nothing to find fault with. Zhao Yao commanded the Invalids Battalion, and Dai Mo led the Dai family's clan soldiers, Cheng Chi handed over this task to them, naturally because the two battalions they commanded were powerful, and they had no problem in terms of honor and sacrifice, but they also saw that these two battalions were shouldering too many expectations, and they were not allowed to have any possibility of retreating in the face of such a good opportunity. If they retreat at this juncture, their two battalions may not have a chance to wait for military justice to deal with them. Perhaps, this is the only trouble in Yunzhou, that is, justice has not been able to completely replace ethnic punishment......
The two immediately separated a part of the vanguard and the soldiers of the special battalion to go forward, to pull out the sentry in front of them, and prepare to attack the starting point, while the rear side stepped up to climb the mountains and find ways to organize materials to widen the road. After all, it is convenient to do things with a large number of people, and the apprentice craftsmen in the Yunzhou army have played a huge role at this moment, and the two battalions without the cooperation of the sappers have quickly built a rough wooden bridge, although it is still narrow and dangerous, but compared to the suspension bridge just now, after all, it is much better. It took more than two hours, and the elites selected again in the two battalions were already holding their breath in the forest on the edge of the sump pond and waiting for the order to attack, and the two battalions fought out the elite of more than 1,000 elites, plus the soldiers of the 300 special battalions, as long as they attacked, they could immediately burst out their strength. The troops behind are waiting one node after another, ready to rush forward and pounce at any time.
Barrett was at the forefront at the moment, this Prairie Shaman-born Special Battalion officer, every pore on his body seemed to breathe in his favorite war atmosphere. Others say that Barrett is a natural soldier, and the more dangerous he is, the calmer he is. In fact, he himself knows that this is not the case at all, the more dangerous he is, the more he can concentrate, the more excited he is, that is his true nature, it is difficult to play anything lazily in what he usually does.
Zhao Yao and Dai Mo lay behind Barrett and watched Barrett's gestures. Some of the spikes had quietly followed them, their crossbows wound and bolted. The fighters of the special battalion have already communicated with their characteristic gestures, assigning the immediate target. It is hard to imagine that less than a mile away from the enemy's entire command core of Dalun Mountain, it can still be so lax in defense. The quality of defense is not a matter of numbers. The catchment pond is definitely a relatively important place for the entire mountain defense, especially for long-term defense, but now there are only about a hundred people stationed in the camp tent on the edge of the catchment pool, and the others have already been killed in front. Even if there are more than 100 people, they will send people to the main camp where the command of the Chinese army is located at any time to understand the battle situation ahead, and everyone's mind is in front, but they are completely unaware of the danger that has been compared to their side.
"This group of people, can't run away from one, only ...... Five minutes. Dai Mo, you take your people to turn over first, block that mountain pass, and remember, never let one go. Ten minutes later we attacked. Block them all up, at least for us...... Twenty minutes to a quarter of an hour. Then we can gather a battalion of troops to attack the back door of the main barracks. Barrett crawled back and whispered.
Dai Mo nodded, beckoned secretly behind him, and led the people to bend down quickly through the mountain forest and rush towards the mountain pass.
"Prepared ......," Barrett said to Zhao Yao after taking a deep breath. Zhao Yao's expression didn't change in the slightest, he just blinked to indicate that he knew.
It's hard to wait a few minutes in the dark, in silence. When the scheduled moment came, Barrett's small hammer on his watch, strapped to his forearm, tapped lightly against his skin. Barrett really loves these things in Tissot Watches, these little things make the battlefield a stage where those with brains can become more and more in control. It's a pity that for the sake of secrecy, he was never able to bring those artistic Tissot treasures to the battlefield, such as the "Three Questions" that was released just last month......
Barrett didn't wait a second before slashing hard with his right hand. Immediately, the sound of shooting filled his ears. The army of Yunzhou did not know since when, the stronger the troops, the quieter, and when attacking, that meaningless shouting and shouting had been abandoned. For the army of Yunzhou, which already has the strength to defy all enemies, there is no point in intimidating the enemy with shouting to embolden themselves......
Just in the first quiet attack, more than a hundred enemies had already fallen in one-sixth. The warriors slid down the hillside, riding on the momentum brought to them by the slope of the mountain, and launched the first assault. And it's just this one impact. With absolute superiority in strength, this attack alone dealt with these enemies at the catchment pool, and after a little build-up, they rushed towards the back door of the main camp. There is no chance to earn the back door of the camp, and it is still absolute strength that can be relied on.
And when the whole army began to attack the back door defended by only a small number of troops, Barrett asked the signalmen around him to inform Yamashita with arrows and colored smoke: everything is going well.
"Good!" Cheng Chi was immediately informed, and with the airship in the air to observe, in fact, he could know all kinds of movements on the entire Dalun Mountain. "The whole army is attacking, the general attack! …… Pro-soldiers, with knives...... Generals, let's go to war. See you in the mountains. ”
Cheng Chi said it arrogantly, and these generals and battalion officials who were still stranded in the main camp tent had long been impatient. They shouted in unison: "Die for Yunzhou!" And they rushed impatiently towards their troops. Cheng Chi wore armor and soon appeared at the forefront, and under the personal leadership of the chief general and generals at all levels, the whole army launched wave after wave of attacks**.
As the battle continued, the inequality between the two sides became more and more apparent, and under the harassment and communication of the airship team, almost none of the support troops were able to reach the front line with all their tails to fight against the Yunzhou army. This kind of all-out harassment and focused attacks are even more frustrating than the previous all-out bombardment. When dusk came, and night gradually covered the land, the Yunzhou army had no intention of stopping the attack, and they continued to attack. The sergeants of the various battalions took turns to attack, and the heavy infantry and longbowmen rotated many times, after all, in this kind of mountain battle, although there were many faces of contact between the two sides, it was unlikely that each face would be fully engaged, and the two sides would have smashed a large battle into small and fragmented battles.
Before the sun set, the back door of the main camp was finally breached, and the soldiers of the special battalion, the invalids battalion, and the Dai clan entered the inside of the camp like wolves, causing a ghost to cry wolf. By this time, the entire Western Route Army, which had actually lost its command, had inevitably failed. Dalun Mountain, a fortress group with high hopes, actually only lasted for a day. Although the dust did not settle until noon the next day, it didn't matter. After capturing Dalun Mountain, the frontal offensive presided over by Dai Yun was no longer an eyesore, all of them were small and medium-sized cities along the way. And for the Yunzhou army, which has mastered a variety of powerful siege methods and has strong mobility, these are no longer a problem. Almost from the next day, Dai Yun launched an all-out attack, forcing the Western Route Army to retreat with a stern hand.
If there is anything dissatisfied with the battle of Dalun Mountain, it may be that the casualties are too great. Due to the lack of land and profit, although relying on airships and the cooperation of multiple arms, relying on surprise troops, Yunzhou has always taken the initiative on the battlefield, but so many troops invested before and after, there are actually more than 7,000 casualties in total. Half of them were killed. This figure cheered up the Yunzhou army from top to bottom. More than one battalion was killed in this way, and one more was wounded and withdrew from the battle...... These are enough to make everyone realize that the Northern Liaoxi Route Army is still very powerful, especially since they still hold such great but unrealistic and desperate fantasies.
And where is the Gao Sen Banner, who injected this desperate power into the entire Western Route Army and came to lead this doomed struggle? No one could have imagined that he would actually take the most elite strength of the Western Route Army and quietly wait for Ye Tao on the southern front, waiting for a violent collision with the Blood Qi Army.