Chapter 475: The Great Victory of Bodaling (Part II)
The explosion of "boom" made Hamoud, who had been ambushed at the foot of the mountain for almost a night, spit out the hay that was chewing casually in his mouth, stared at the big eyes and carefully looked at the mountainside coalition camp that was constantly burning in the distance, the Uighur coalition camp at this time was chaotic to the extreme in a series of explosions, these explosives bags blew up all the camps near the top of the mountain peak at the first time, and the fiery red fire also set off a fire after the explosion, completely illuminating the originally black road. The coalition soldiers were blown up in their sleep because they were all focused on the defensive line on the mountainside in front of them, and they had no defense behind and above the mountain peaks, and the rest of the soldiers who were not killed also fled from the camp and began to check where the enemy was. At this time, the lieutenant general and the captain of the personal guard who couldn't wait immediately led the team to attack, and the familiar sound of bullets began to sound, and in the darkness of the night, these coalition soldiers could not organize at all for a while, and a large number of them were knocked down by bursts of gunfire. And the lieutenant general obviously wanted to take the fire attack to the extreme, so after rushing into the camp, he killed people while lighting the fire as much as possible. The night at the end of August in the northwest was already very windy above the mountain peak, and this fire suddenly plunged the entire campside of the mountain into flames, and as the soldiers of the Tiance Army continued to attack the depths of the opponent's camp, the fire also began to spread to other areas.
"The soldiers of the three armies rushed me." Hammud immediately ordered the guards behind him to sound the trumpet of the charge after seeing the chaotic fighting and the constantly rising fire inside the coalition camp, and the 30,000-strong army began to rush forward. The elite under the personal command of Hammoud rushed out of the foot of the mountain at the first time. At this time, the defensive troops on the mountainside that were originally heavily guarded were all attracted by the chaos in their camp at this time, and even some of the personnel were directly transferred back to prepare to encircle and suppress the sneak attack led by the deputy general. In fact, this is also the helpless method of the commander of the coalition forces, the main force in the camp is in chaos, and it is impossible to stabilize order for a while, and the hateful sneak attackers do not follow the routine at all when they fight, and the chaos is indeed a first-class master, because the chaos and fire themselves cannot discern how many people have entered the camp, and the constant gunfire in all directions is also constantly exacerbating this chaos. Therefore, he can only send the troops on duty into the camp to encircle and suppress, as long as these people are eliminated, he has the means to complete the reorganization of the troops in the shortest possible time, and then rely on the terrain advantage to drive the Tiance army that took advantage of the chaos to drive down the mountain again. So even though the main army led by Hammoud had already begun to charge, half of the troops on duty were still transferred. In this way, although the pressure on the adjutant general's side has increased greatly, Hammud's side has greatly reduced the burden. Although the remaining troops relied on the pre-built work to continuously throw stones and arrows down the mountain, the consequence of the drastic drop in numbers was that they could not stop the onslaught of the Tiance army. Although the Uighur corps did not systematically learn the tactics of the Three Threes, but the reorganized veterans of the Tiance Army were very good at it, after a short period of confusion, these veterans quickly organized the Uighur soldiers around them to start charging according to the unified password and tactical movements, although there were no mortars to help, but the coalition soldiers on the mountain did not have other powerful striking weapons except bows and arrows, as for those stones, to be honest, in addition to creating chaos, the real lethality is not very scary. Therefore, the Uighur corps, which was the first to complete the adjustment at a tea hour, began to attack in real terms, and the three-three tactics were more effective for this kind of highland attack, and the continuous back and forth was like a roller, and wave after wave of soldiers covered each other's advance, and each individual soldier spread out a skirmish line of about two meters, as much as possible to avoid being covered by the opponent's arrows, and constantly used obstacles such as mountains and rocks to cover the end gun shooting on the way forward, and the bullets that were also not inferior to the speed forward, Kill those condescending coalition soldiers, and compared to the archers, the advantage of the musket is too obvious, and the firing speed is incomparable, so after the first wave of soldiers opened the formation and attacked the advance with three or three tactical attacks, the veterans of the Tiance Army in the main corps in the rear reacted one after another, so that the mountains and fields were full of this new tactics and the sound of passwords, countless soldiers divided into a team, and began to quickly seize a reasonable position under the leadership of the veterans, and then spontaneously led the team to fuse and carry out a group charge.
"I didn't expect this tactic to be so powerful." Hamoud, who was in the front, naturally discovered the power of this three-three tactic for the first time, and after this kind of squad densely rolled forward, the casualties of the troops dropped all of a sudden, and such a reunion one after another obviously made the coalition soldiers in charge of defense on the mountain unable to concentrate on launching a counterattack. In this way, although the strength of the counterattack on the mountain has not changed, it has weakened a lot for the soldiers participating in the battle. Thus, in less than a quarter of an hour, the Uighur corps had already crossed half the distance, gradually approaching the defensive position on the mountainside.
The charge at the foot of the mountain was already on track, but the adjutant general on the mountainside suffered from the opponent's increasingly dense counterattack, especially after the commander of the Uighur coalition army transferred the soldiers on duty back, the two armies fought in the camp, the Tiance army quickly suppressed these people with a combination of muskets and grenades at first, and firmly held an area inside the promise, firmly attracting all the attention of the other side, but with the addition of the soldiers on duty, the Uighur commander finally freed up his hands to put the main soldiers who were scattered, In this way, the pressure on the lieutenant general is too great, and new forces continue to join the siege formation, and the opponent's pervasive attacks from all directions also make them gradually unbearable.
"Deying, you immediately take someone to find their stables, and release all their war horses for me to disperse them." The lieutenant was almost shot in the shoulder by a random arrow from the other party, so there was a wave of anger in his voice, and he came up with a brilliant solution in a hurry, so he couldn't wait for the captain of the guard to immediately lead people to prepare to find the camp where their war horses were raised, and then drive the war horses to break up their encirclement. This method is good, but it is obvious that the army of war horses hoarded on the mountainside cannot be placed in the camp on the mountainside on a large scale. Therefore, although the captain of the guard led people to rush out of the encirclement, he did not find the stables of the war horses after looking for a long time, and only found a few hundred war horses, which should be used by the war horses and heralds led by them. As for the horses of the main cavalry, they should not be on the mountain. But at this time, the captain of the guard couldn't take care of it, a few hundred horses are better than nothing, so Xin Yiheng directly ordered the soldiers to light the hair on these war horses and then whip them fiercely, and suddenly these frightened and burning war horses began to scatter and flee, and suddenly the horses' hooves burst, the frightened war horses couldn't control it at all, and they scattered and began to frantically impact the surrounding coalition soldiers, setting off a wave again in the already chaotic coalition camp, and those coalition soldiers who were knocked down by the war horses were trampled on the crying father and mother. The chaotic horses even set the tents on fire in the gallop, and the fire was once again flourishing. However, this scene obviously made the captain of the guard a little pity, if it was not hundreds of war horses, but thousands, it was definitely more than these small movements in front of him. Moreover, as the coalition forces began to fire arrows at these war horses, this chaos was finally suppressed, and it did not help much for the situation on the adjutant general's side at this time.
However, although the desired effect was not achieved, at this time, the main force of the Uighur corps charging on the periphery had arrived in front of the fortifications on the mountainside, explosive bags and grenades continued to bloom and explode on the position, one after another huge fireballs rose into the air, countless coalition soldiers were killed in this dense explosion, the strength of resistance weakened, the main force of the army quickly took advantage of this to climb the mountainside and began to pounce on the battlefield of the large camp fighting in the distance.
"Get out, assault the whole army, take them down for me." Hammoud had also climbed the mountainside at this time, and immediately ordered the whole army to assault when he saw the battle and fire in the distance. The successful arrival of the main force of the army also made the deputy general in the fierce battle overjoyed, and the three thousand people under his command have been reduced by almost half of the battle so far, and a large number of soldiers have been killed directly, and the captain of the personal guard has not brought enough war horses to disrupt the battlefield, and if he continues to fight, he is afraid that his people will be really dangerous. But at this time, he heard the horn of the whole army's assault and the shouts of killing that kept coming up in the distance, and immediately followed the roar, and took the lead in rushing out, preparing to cooperate with the army inside and outside, completely disrupting the spirit of the coalition army.
The Uighur army rushed forward smoothly and burst into battle to cause chaos on the coalition forces, which had been gradually reversing the situation, and the more and more blows suffered made the low-level soldiers begin to be confused, and the counterattacks of the various units began to lose the order that had been gradually established and began to be chaotic. And this kind of chaos is exactly what Hammoud needs, so he immediately asked the front-line soldiers to immediately increase the intensity of the strike, and the impact caused by more than 30,000 rifles broke out in an instant with powerful lethality, countless coalition soldiers who were caught off guard were killed, and in a short period of time, the front line was directly hit with a vacuum, and those grenades that exploded in the crowd from time to time made those panicked coalition soldiers completely lose their combat effectiveness. And it is under the effect of this sharp spirit that the deputy general smoothly joined the soldiers on the front line, and after the two were united, the troops immediately divided into two left and right assaults and began to truly bring the battle into the decisive stage.
The battle continued until dawn, when the gunfire gradually subsided, and the various units fought from the mountainside to the bottom of the mountain, and almost annihilated all the Anxi Uighur forces entrenched on the Boda Ridge to intercept them. The remaining 3,000 or so captives were also killed on the spot by Hammud's order because it was inconvenient to carry them with them due to his surprise attack on Shule. The bloody scene was not even weaker than the previous big war.
"General, the preliminary statistics of the results of the battle have come out, we attacked and destroyed about 50,000 people on the other side, and obtained 20,000 war horses and other livestock and food." When the adjutant general told Hammoud about this, the other party didn't care at all, but asked directly: "How many casualties are our army?" How many were injured? ”
"More than 4,000 people were killed or wounded, including more than 2,000 on hand. The main thing is that the last general caused it when he was besieged by the other side. The adjutant general was a little ashamed, but he still said truthfully: "But fortunately, General Tuoba's troops and we have left us a lot of medical officers after we have been reorganized, and these wounded soldiers should be fine." ”
"Ordered the troops to rest on the spot for half a day, and immediately set off for Shule after lunch, and sent some men to escort the wounded soldiers to follow us behind, and if they found the people of Xuanyingwei, let them find a way to lead the wounded soldiers to the main force. We are running out of time and must leave right away. While instructing the adjutant general to make arrangements immediately, Hamoud began to write a battle report, recorded the battle on the side of Bodaling, and then sent someone to quickly forward it to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army. Since he didn't know that the current headquarters had moved forward to the vicinity of Kupira, he still sent it directly to Qiuzi according to his previous custom. However, this late war report could not hide that Hammud created a brilliant record after the Luntai grassland, and once again won more and bloody and cruel battles to shake Hammad's reputation again, so that even those Anxi Uighurs who claimed to be the same clan as him were terrified when he accepted Shule, this famous general of the same clan was more cruel than those Han generals in terms of decisiveness, and the bloody butcher's knife almost killed all the tribal leaders and elders who tried to continue to fight against the Tang Dynasty. The ploughing sweep generally swept all the opponents into the dust of history, allowing the Shule side to quickly restore stability and become the rear of the Western Expeditionary Army.
However, Hamoud in front of him didn't know the impact of his battle on the future, and what worried him was that he was still thousands of miles away from Shule, and according to the itinerary of the headquarters, he had to speed up or he would definitely not be able to complete the request. Therefore, in the following days, it was even required that the troops march for no less than eight hours a day, relying on the help of captured war horses, and under the premise of making all the surplus livestock into dry food, this mighty cavalry was like a whirlwind, and quickly began to advance westward from Bodaling, crossed the Hulu River, and then began to detour south from the Garna Pass, and returned to the north of Shule City, before arranging for the troops to repair and restore their combat strength. During this long march of thousands of miles, the Uighur army was greatly trained, and the various tactics after the reorganization were gradually trained and mastered during the march, and those veterans of the Tiance army also gained the respect and respect of the surrounding Uighur soldiers, and even for a few days even Hammud himself began to ask those veterans for advice on the new tactics of the Tiance army. Through these run-ins, the combat strength of the Uighur Corps also began to rise in a straight line, gradually transitioning from the tactics of the cold weapon era to the new tactics of the Tiance Army.
When Hammud led his army south from the Garna Pass, the Anxi Corps on the southern front, under the leadership of Zhang Sheng, had gradually finished Shule, and after crossing the Xiduo River, they advanced to Shuangqu City and began a real northward war there.