Chapter 411: Catching a Turtle in an Urn (Part II)

"Prince, the vanguard of our army has arrived at the camp of the Tiance Army and is attacking the opponent's gate." After receiving the report from the forward, Prince Halle no longer hesitated, and ordered his more than 100,000 cavalry to charge the whole army to assist the vanguard to quickly open the camp of the Tiance army.

Halle's actions can be said to be very correct at this time, hundreds of thousands of cavalry swarmed up, quickly broke through the gate, and quickly submerged the patrol of the Tiance Army that was originally guarding the gate of the camp, the sound of rolling horses' hooves broke the silence of the night, and the entire Tiance Army camp was also like a fried pot at this time, and the noise began to swarm from all directions, and countless Tiance troops began to rush out of the various camp tents, trying to resist this sudden attack on the camp, but at this time, the 30,000 cavalry of the Anxi Uighurs had all entered the camp, The frantic horses' hooves became the most chilling weapon at the moment, and these Uighur cavalry unscrupulously began to sweep the surrounding Tiance military camp tents, and some of the tents were immediately set on fire by these Uighur cavalry, and the raging fire began to quickly illuminate the camp, and the figures that had been shaking before also began to gradually appear. And this scene made the Uighurs even more ecstatic, no matter how many troops the other side had, but at least these panicked Tiance soldiers showed that the Tiance army camp at this time was not much defense, and their attack tonight could at least reap good results. This thought made the subsequent Uighur cavalry rush even more frantically towards the depth of the Tiance army camp, trying to bring the chaos to the depths, and the Uighur cavalry at the forefront of the vanguard went directly towards the tent of the Tiance army commander, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to kill the Tiance army commander.

"Report to the marshal, the Uighurs have crossed the front camp and are coming towards our Chinese army." Outside the tent of the Tiance Army, Wan Yi looked at the chaotic scene in the front camp with a cold eye and was indifferent, until the personal guard brought the latest news, then waved his hand and said: "I don't care where they are, I just need to know whether the Uighurs have entered my camp with their whole army now." Seeing the guard, he shook his head and said, "Go and inform Chai Jia to let him lift the blockade of the Chinese army and let these Uighurs in, only in this way can he attract the main force of the other side into the barracks." Seeing that the guards wanted to stop talking, he shook his head and said, "Don't worry that the Chinese army will be disturbed by them, just let your captain lead people to guard near the tent." ”

The guards quickly left with Wan Yi's order, and after receiving the order, Chai Jia's side also quickly released the blockade line between the front battalion and the Chinese army, and divided his troops into two, spreading out on both sides with the Chinese army as the baseline, and at the same time ordered his troops to start a counterattack, so that the Uighur forward was naturally stopped by the group, but after the news reached Halle's side, it was natural to think that the Tiance army had abandoned the front camp and concentrated its troops to hold the Chinese army. Therefore, Haller left 30,000 people to follow him and set forward, so that the Khotanese army and his main force of the Chinese army quickly converged with the forward, and sent his general Hammoud as the forward general to concentrate on commanding the 120,000 people in front to concentrate on attacking the Chinese army of Tiance. As long as it can disperse the opponent's Chinese army, then no matter whether it can kill the opponent's commander or not, the Tiance army will also suffer heavy losses.

The Chinese army in the era of cold weapon warfare, is the core of an army, everywhere it goes is basically heavy sanitation, there will be no mistakes, here bears the position of the command center of an army, but also usually the location of the commander of an army, usually deployed the most elite troops of an army, so Halle's idea is to do his best to use the advantage of the night and his own hundreds of thousands of cavalry to disperse the opponent's Chinese army, once the Chinese army is scattered, then the Tiance army will inevitably collapse completely because of the loss of command and the main force, As a result, the entire Anxi War can also be declared over, and he Halle will also be famous in the entire northwest and become a great hero of all races.

Thinking like this, Haller couldn't help but take the last 30,000 cavalry in his hands to cross the front camp and begin to join the main force of the army in front. Although Halle's current position is still far from the place where the two sides are fighting, all this has basically been declared in the eyes of the Tiance army who are watching coldly nearby, and tonight's ambush has been completed.

At this time, the Chayjia Division, which was tasked with blocking the Uighur cavalry head-on, had gradually recovered all the troops scattered in the front camp near the Chinese army, converged with the sniping troops, set up three blockade lines, and used the various fortifications arranged in the large camp to block the footsteps of these already frantic Uighur cavalry. It's just that with the increasing number of the other side, Chai Jia is facing more and more pressure, although the mortar detachment has been deployed on the front line, and there are constantly dense shells rising into the air, and then setting off a shocking explosion in the camp, taking countless lives, but in the face of the opponent's endless manpower, the deterrence brought by more than 100 mortars can only play a role in delaying the opponent's offensive pace. Therefore, almost by the time Haller left the front camp for the Chinese army, Chai Jia's side had already been in close contact with the opposing cavalry, and the rifles equipped with bayonets were used as spears by the soldiers of the Tiance Army at this time, and the Uighur cavalry that had broken into his position was put to the ground. At this time, Chai Jia also began to change his disposition, transferring reserves to snipe the Uighur cavalry that broke through the position, while the soldiers at the location of the three blockade lines in front continued to shoot at the Uighurs who rushed up, regardless of the gun. At this time, the artillery battalion of the group army controlled by Liu Xuan also began to be prepared, and the huge and hideous box launcher of the mechanical crossbow was tested by a group of soldiers. I saw Liu Xuan wave his hand resolutely towards the Uighur cavalry swarming in front of him, and in an instant, countless fire-shining crossbow arrows suddenly crossed the sky with a flaming rainbow, and pounced on the Uighur charging brigade in the distance.

At this time, the Uighur cavalry had begun to attack the area where Wan Yi, who erected the Tiance Army, was located according to the order of the forward general Hammud, which was also the key area of Chai Jia's defense, and the firing direction of the mechanical crossbow of the artillery battalion commanded by Liu Xuan was also officially in this direction, only to see more than 500 mechanical crossbows flying out like a rainbow in an instant, and the twenty crossbow arrows in the box launcher were fired in just an instant. The beautiful rainbows in the air brought a shocking death after they landed, whether it was directly pierced by crossbow arrows or the subsequent explosions, which caused the Uighur cavalry in this area to be wiped out. It can be said that this kind of weapon is close to the rockets of later generations, but Li Xuanqing has no way to complete the internal structure of the rocket in a short time, otherwise he is afraid that the power will be even stronger, but the equipment department led by Qin Yao has already organized people to spontaneously study how to increase the power of the mechanical crossbow.

"Let's go shoot smoke rockets and deliver orders." Wan Yi saw that the mechanical crossbow had begun to participate in the attack, nodded and asked the guards behind him to take advantage of the interval between the mechanical crossbow launches to quickly launch colorful smoke rockets, only to see that in an instant, a colorful rocket rose into the air and then exploded rapidly, and the colorful light was great, illuminating this area brightly. The moment this rocket lifted into the air, the Modao battalion, which had long been ambushed in the left and right barracks on both sides of the front camp, quickly set off from their respective bunkers amid Shi Jian's roar and began to take the initiative to attack the Uighurs. More than 50,000 soldiers of the Modao Battalion were armed with formal rifles, and the dense rain of bullets interrupted Haller's imagination from the rear, he did not expect that two groups of enemies would suddenly appear in his rear, and looking at the opponent's attack posture and the speed of bullet firing, it was stronger than the opponent who blocked his attack in front of him, and he immediately panicked, and hurriedly dispatched his subordinates to turn around and start blocking these people.

It's just that what Halle didn't expect was that he only commanded 30,000 people directly at this time, so after sending these people to block the Modao Battalion, Haller suddenly found that there was no army around him except for the 2,000 people of the personal guard. This made him shocked, but before he could make a move, Shi Jian personally led the most elite 5,000 men of the Modao Battalion to rush into the 30,000 cavalry, and the Chinese rifle allowed the soldiers of the Tiance Army to shoot while running, so soon Shi Jian used the strong advance of these 5,000 people to reach a short distance near Halle. However, Shi Jian did not expect that there was a supreme commander of the Uighurs in the team of more than 2,000 people in front of him, so he rushed directly to disperse them and plunged headlong into the main formation of the Uighur cavalry of Hammad, who had already reacted but had not had time to adjust the deployment.

And Halle, who picked up a life, saw that the other party was just fighting with his own personal guard less than a cup of tea, the two thousand personal guards had lost more than half, and hundreds of soldiers were wounded, all of which made Halle no longer have any thoughts, and at the same time suddenly understood that he had fallen into the trap of the other party, so he desperately began to rush out with the personal guards, trying to escape from the Tiance army camp before the other party reacted. It's just that what he didn't expect was that this time Wan Yi was determined to keep him, except for the Modao battalion attacking from behind, the cavalry corps outside the camp Tuoba Siji had made all preparations at this time, just waiting for the Modao battalion to rush into the crowd and start coming from behind, but first encountered the panicked Halle and his party, poor Halle did not expect the serious consequences of being captured by Tuoba Sijisheng to the Gaochang Uighurs this time.

However, at this time, Tuoba Siji had no intention of caring about Halle, and after the Modao battalion changed its deployment to attack the Uighurs from behind, Tuobasji's offensive route was actually occupied by the Modao battalion, but Tuobas also quickly changed the attack route after a little thought, and began to lead 30,000 cavalry to cut into the battlefield from the Uighurs' right flank, and quickly defeated the Uighur cavalry who retreated from the front line on the right flank. The chaotic Uighur cavalry tasted the consequences of why the Tiance army would take the initiative to abandon their own camp to attract their own attacks, Tuoba Siji's cavalry was like a fish in water in their own military camp, coming and going without a trace, you have no way to predict where these people will come out, and although the official rifle cannot be used as a regular cavalry gun, the Tiance army soldiers also have a way to shoot at a long distance, but when they get closer, they throw grenades directly from their horses, Numerous explosions rang out on the Uighurs' right flank, and the Uighur cavalry that had been crushed was torn apart, and countless severed arms and stumps rose into the sky and turned into weapons, causing secondary damage to those around them.

Relying on the help of grenades at close range, Tuba Siji's attack was even smoother than that of the Modao battalion, but in less than two quarters of an hour the cavalry regiment had already cut through the Uighurs' right flank and appeared near the center of Hamoud's forward. At this time, Shi Jian, who regarded Hammud as a Halle, also concentrated about 30,000 soldiers of the Modao battalion in the process of attacking and sorting out the order of the troops, and Tuoba Sijiao one to the right and one behind, plus the front that Chai Jia was responsible for, gradually surrounded the Uighurs on three sides at the location of the Chinese army, and as more and more soldiers of the Modao battalion rushed forward, this encirclement became more and more dense, making the Uighurs' range of activities smaller and smaller.

The battle in the camp of the Tiance army was in full swing, relying on the smooth attack of Tuoba Siji and Shi Jian, after Chai Jia's department stabilized the front, this ambush battle was basically a foregone conclusion, but the seventh corps of Gao Siji, which was lurking near the Uighur camp, did not dare to be careless, just like he was paying attention to the movements of the Uighur camp, Jiamu in the camp was also paying attention to Halle's every move at all times, to be precise, he was staring at the movements of the Tiance army. Wave after wave of scouts kept passing the latest news to Kogi, allowing him to get the news of Halle's ambush as soon as possible. So almost at the moment when Tuoba Siji entered the battle, Jiamu was also quickly gathering his cavalry troops to prepare to leave the camp, on the one hand, to rescue Halle, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to break the Tiance army besieging Halle's rear army, so as to finish this sneak attack. For Jia Mu, only by attacking by himself can he break all the back hands of the Tiance Army and win this battle.

But what he didn't know was that at the moment when he had just left the camp, Gao Siji, who had been crouching, also began to move, and more than 50,000 people of the Seventh Corps raised their muskets at this moment, aiming at the Uighur cavalry that was constantly flashing in front of him.

"Bang" A crisp gunshot suddenly appeared, followed by a green light quickly rose from the sky, before Jiamu could react, countless gunshots rang out, 50,000 rifles opened fire at the same time, almost instantly, the Uighur cavalry who had just left the camp and was not ready to set off in a very short period of time as if they had been bitten by someone, directly collapsed a large area, and countless cavalry were killed on the spot before they could understand what was going on.

"It's time for you to retire from the stage of history." Gao Siji said something inexplicable to the guards around him, but then Gao Siji's roar came: "Seventh Corps, attack." With the shouts of the mountains and a tsunami, accompanied by the sound of dense gunfire, the Seventh Corps began to attack on all fronts, and the last battlefield of the Illinois front was completely opened at this moment.