Chapter 535: Capture is more important than victory

"General Ha, it looks like they're going to launch a general attack today." Wu Si'er and Hammoud stood side by side on the command platform and looked at the camp of the Heavenly Fang Sect from afar, shook their heads and said, "I really can't figure it out, why does such a group of rabble seem to exude combat power that is not much worse than that of the regular army?" ”

"If you don't attack again, will you be here to celebrate the New Year with us?" Hammoud shook his head and said: "The other party's pope is not a fool, the northwest has entered winter, the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, they don't have perfect logistics supplies, if they can't make a quick decision, once they enter the winter, these people are afraid that ordinary people will be thrown here, and besides, the big cannibals in the rear will not allow them to spend time with us here." Many of the cultists' tribes in this area have been cleaned up by you, and any more days of delay will be an extra day of risk. In that case, if it were me, I would have let these people start a big war as soon as possible, even if it was to consume our troops. Hammoud laughed: "And you don't underestimate this rabble, they are bewitched by the religious patriarch, they regard death as nothing, to put it bluntly, they are a group of madmen who don't know death, how much pressure do you say a group of such madmen put on others on the battlefield?" Such a country is adjacent to my Tang Dynasty, wouldn't it make the empire uneasy forever? If it weren't for the fact that domestic construction was greater than our big war in the northwest, I was afraid that the General Staff would mobilize heavy troops to directly enter the country and completely eradicate this scourge. The emperor's vision will always be farther than we think in this regard. ”

"Let's also prepare, order the army to enter the position immediately, General Wu, your cavalry troops are arranged in the flank and rear, once the opponent's whole army launches a surprise attack, your cavalry troops will immediately attack, cut off the opponent's middle army, and then work together with the main force to break up their formation." Hammoud smiled: "Didn't the marshal say that he wanted to take more prisoners?" How we win or lose this battle is secondary, the first priority is to capture prisoners, and catch as many as we can. The smile on Hammoud's face was a little weird when he said this, and it made Us'er a little hairy. The main general of a big war didn't care much about the outcome of the war, but thought about how to capture more prisoners, how weird this thing sounded, but Deying behind Hammad was constantly nodding, this capture of prisoners Hammud was not planned for a day or two, this war was only afraid that most of the opponent's congregants would be sent to the rear by the original prisoners of war and become unpaid labor force in the construction of the northwest.

"Deying, you go and prepare, the three battalions of the front corps are under your unified command." Hamoud seemed to know what Deying was thinking, and after sending him to the front line to take charge of the specific command, he immediately asked Us'er to arrange for his 20,000 cavalry to prepare immediately on the flanks and rear of the position.

"Immediately order the artillery unit to prepare, once the other party enters the firing range, be sure to fire with all my strength, and completely blow up this group of sect members who have been bewitched by the Heavenly Sect." Seeing that the opposing brigade had all left the camp and began to let the guards standing behind him convey orders to the artillery position, he saw that in a moment, the first-line position of fifty artillery pieces and the second-line position where the mechanical crossbow were assembled came from the sound of uninterrupted orders, countless ammunition men pushed the carts back and forth to carry the shells, and all kinds of flags were constantly conveying the latest orders. Although Hammud wants to capture as many prisoners as possible, but for this group of madmen who ignore death, Hammud has no merciless intentions, the artillery fires with all its strength in addition to covering the infantry position, and the more important thing is to deter this group of people, all the courage and bravery under the artillery fire will be ruthlessly swept away, in this era of industrialization in the Tang Dynasty has entered in advance, gunpowder weapons have the power to change the world.

"They are here, although the team is chaotic, but this momentum of going forward and not fearing death is really chilling." Wu Si'er couldn't help but sigh when he watched the other party's army continue to attack, the other party's method of almost all the soldiers is indeed not something that ordinary countries can handle, in fact, in the northwest, if it is not for the weapons in the hands of the Tang Dynasty soldiers to lead the era by an era, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand such crazy consumption by the other party.

"Nothing." Hammoud waved his hand and ordered the guards behind him to blow the horn, and said with a smile indifferently: "If you can't deal with it, then fight, until there is no one in the opponent's country to go to the battlefield." The greatest factor in a country's war potential is its people, and if there is no one, then the country loses its future. In the voice of Hamoud's words, the artillery positions on the front line immediately began to adjust the test firing, countless shells rushed out of the barrel in an instant and roared away in the distance, and the cloud smoke that exploded after landing made the rows of lookouts holding clairvoyants immediately report the distance and error and then began to adjust, and a moment later there was a huge roar again, this time after the adjustment, fifty guns in an instant let countless columns of smoke rise in front of them, and the whirlwind formed by the explosion blew up all the opposing soldiers nearby, The fiery red fireball swept through all obstacles with countless pieces of rubble, and the secondary damage was more intimidating than the explosion itself. The battlefield chosen by Hammoud was originally a Gobi Desert, but the gravel everywhere became a real killing weapon at this time, and these gravel were more prefabricated fragments than the shells themselves, so that almost after a round of shelling, the opponent's charging formation was directly ripped off from the middle.

"Haha, well done, keep banging. I don't believe that I can't kill them. Naturally, Us'er was the first to see the results of the battle and immediately laughed, and the previous Hamoud order also made the artillery on the front line let go of their hands and feet, and the shells were fired almost like flowing water in front of the front, and the sound of shell explosions was more dense than thunder, and the entire battlefield was dominated by this epoch-making weapon.

"It looks like the other party is going to make a big move, otherwise an impact of this scale will not be able to pose an effective threat to us at all." Hammoud nodded, and the sound of horns kept coming from the rear of the opponent's large array, and countless figures accompanied by the neighing of horses made Hammoud understand that the other party had reacted, and he had to press all his forces, stop the shelling with the advantage of numbers, and then use the cavalry charge to rush into the front position, so that there would be a glimmer of life.

The other party obviously also understood where their only advantage was, so the second wave of attacks was even more powerful, countless cavalry hooves trampled over the ground, the momentum was even higher than the sound of artillery fire, and tens of thousands of cavalry shouted and began to gallop towards the position of the Tiance army. This time, not only did the artillery positions on the front line fire with all their might, but even the mechanical crossbow positions began to join the bombardment, and the smoke and dust billowed up from the battlefield, and countless cavalry were scattered in the explosion that almost obscured the entire sky and the battlefield.

"General Wu, you immediately take the cavalry to bypass from the left and attack the opponent's central army, and then break up their command center in advance, and then wait until Deying leads the troops to counterattack and you will attack from the rear. If the regular army of the Great Eclipse comes to your aid, you must stop them and buy time for Deying to finish this battle. Hammoud's words were full of war. And Wu Si'er has been waiting for this moment for a long time, compared to the official opening of fire on the German and British sides, his cavalry troops still need to make a detour, so they need to prepare in advance. But at this time, the entire battlefield was taken over by the boundless flames of war, and Wu Si'er's departure did not attract the attention of the other party, and even the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army who were on the front line at this time almost did not react, after all, hundreds of thousands of cavalry continued to rush forward and constantly break through the life and death line composed of artillery, and it was impossible for everyone not to concentrate all their spirit on the front. Deying, who was in the command position at the front, even held a rifle in his hand and pressed a cavalryman in the distance into the aiming line, and after firing with a single shot, the cavalryman was thrown out of his horse far away. And with the sound of his gun, the 30,000 infantry on the front line opened fire at the same time, and countless bullets were instantly discharged, and they were hit hard again after finally breaking out of the death line of the shell explosion, and the cavalry was swept off their horses by the sudden bullets.

With Deying in command, Hammoud didn't even need to check the situation on the battlefield, but carefully observed the use of his own tactics in the battle and how to optimize them in the future. This layered trench arrangement of the Tiance Army can maximize the echelon allocation of troops, avoid the loss of combat power of the entire battle formation after the first wave of positions are broken by the opponent, and also avoid the situation that the enemy cavalry cannot counterattack after entering the formation.

"In battle, individual elite shooting may not play a major role, but the coordination between the various firing positions needs to be strengthened, and for the direction of the enemy on the battlefield, someone needs to be able to react in time with the soldiers to be able to destroy the opponent to the greatest extent. It seems that the officers and men of the Seventh Corps are much more familiar than my Uighur Corps. Hammoud muttered to himself, detailing his side's absences on the battlefield. The Uighur Corps did have a gap with the Seventh Corps in this respect, as can be seen in the combined operations.

"The mortar detachment gave me rapid fire." Deyoung roared hoarsely. Behind the countless mortar detachments opened the barrels, and then countless mortar shells rose up, and the rapid explosion in front of the position overwhelmingly set off countless bloody storms, the shells of the third line of defense were very fast, almost continuous, and built a solid explosion life and death line in front of the first-line position, assisting the infantry to hold the position to the death.

"Us'er is so fast." Hammoud walked forward in the distance, the other party's vague Chinese army flag was faintly confused, distinguishing the faint sound of fighting over there, and his figure stood straight in an instant, standing on the command platform like a javelin, facing the strong wind and firmly erecting on this land like the battle flag of the Tiance Army behind him.

At this time, Wu Si'er had already rushed into front of the few Chinese troops on the other side, and the whistling bullets beat the guards of the Heavenly Fang Sect who were guarding the Chinese army backwards, and the opponent's bravery was useless in front of the bullets, and he was shot on the spot as soon as possible. Wu Si'er even smirked directly after a charge, and rushed towards the core group of people in the middle. It was the place where the commander of the Heavenly Sect army was, and to Wu Si'er's surprise, these people wearing the uniforms and armor of the Great Food Army really looked similar to the generals of the regular army, but I was afraid that it might be true that the other party sent them to command the troops. However, when Us'er rushed forward at this time, the two thousand guards behind him instantly followed, and the rifle bullets continued to shoot out as the war horse charged, and those Heavenly Sect disciples who tried to rush up and fight were also killed immediately.

"Give me immediate surrender, or I will be killed." After firing the last bullet from the rifle in his hand, Wu Si'er knocked a general directly in front of him off the horse, and then the neighing sound of the war horse under his crotch was raised, and the high-pitched voice came out far away. He didn't understand the language of the Great Food, but at this moment, the word surrender didn't need to be said much, everyone understood. But what surprised Wu Si'er was that his words were originally just casually said, but the scattered Chinese soldiers in front of him actually put down their weapons one after another after hesitating.

"Aren't these guys not afraid of death?" After muttering, Us'er immediately ordered the launch of smoke rockets to inform Hammoud that his side had succeeded, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to immediately prepare to counterattack the opponent's troops who were still on the front line to attack the main position of the Tiance Army.

"Order your troops to surrender immediately." After Wu Si'er finished the preparations, he immediately grabbed the general who had been injured and fell off his horse before, and the smile on his hideous face made people feel chills. And the soldiers of the Seventh Corps who were about to move beside Wu Si'er also made this general dare not have any thoughts. The soldiers at the bottom of the Heavenly Fang Sect may be bewitched, but as the Pope and the top leaders who hold the highest power, they have already left the period of sect fanaticism, and of course it is important to save their lives at this time, so when Wu Si'er pointed to the Heavenly Fang Sect army in front of him, he nodded without hesitation, and then personally picked up a horn and blew it vigorously.

"Haha, this is considered to have completed the task assigned by the marshal, right?" The whining horn sound made a riot directly in front of the army, this is the clarion call for retreat, but these soldiers who have killed the red eyes can not retreat at this time, these sect members are not regular troops forbidden by the order, so the horn sounded together, some soldiers chose to retreat immediately according to the orders of the Chinese army, and some continued to rush forward regardless of it, but more of them still lingered in place, because the orders of the Chinese army at this time made them puzzled, and some of the smart ones even guessed that something had happened to the Chinese army, But at this time, there was no general in front who could take charge to stabilize the situation, so the situation became more chaotic. This situation made Deying immediately seize the opportunity, and almost without hesitation, he directly ordered all the troops to enter the counterattack, and the 30,000 soldiers immediately beat the opponent's momentum back directly from the fire in the trenches. This is where the battle begins to come to an end.

"The Guards immediately escorted the artillery units forward, crossed the area of engagement between the two sides, and went to join General Usier." Hamoud's order caused the Chinese army to immediately begin to move rapidly, and the guns began to move forward immediately after stopping under the neighing of the horses.