Chapter 588: The crowd is surging
An Bangyan's generals, Wu Azhan and Zimo, each led an army of 5,000 and set up camp along the post road outside Datunchang.
In addition to a long simple fence earthen wall, the entire camp was a semicircular horse-barring wall that was more than two miles long, blocking the entire wide entrance to the Datun field.
And that earthen wall fence also connected the five watchtowers in the south of the original Datun field.
Qin Gongming led the army to come, with Qin Kezhong's shield array in front, and personally led the spear in the rear, and soon drove the Yi soldiers who dared to go out of the camp to engage in the battle.
The Yi soldiers in the enemy camp, in addition to daring to throw arrows out of the watchtower, did not dare to attack in the face of the spear array of the stone pillar white pole soldiers.
After Qin Gongming and Qin Kezhong lined up the gun array, Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing rushed to the battlefield with the musket team and artillery team, and soon arranged ten general cannons behind Qin Gongming and Qin Kezhong's shield wall gun array.
After the artillery array was arranged, Qin Gongming, who had already understood the essentials of coordinated combat between the infantry and artillery after the Battle of Hongtuchuan, gave an order, and the shield wall gun array of the Shizhu White Pole Soldiers immediately dispersed and retreated to the back of the artillery array.
The swarthy barrel was exposed, and it was facing the Yi camp more than 200 steps ahead.
Since these ten general cannons collapsed the city wall in the valley and played a role, they have been transported all the way, wasting a lot of manpower and material resources, and today, they have finally come in handy again.
When the artillery position was just arranged, Zhu Xieyuan, Wu Zhiwang, and Qin Liangyu, surrounded by Xu Chengming and other generals, also came to the front of the battle.
Those who followed these generals were, of course, Xu Chengming and others with a total of nearly 10,000 soldiers.
At this moment, the sun was about to set in the mountains to the west, and the fiery clouds in the sky in the west illuminated the whole land in a blood-red color.
"The mountains are like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood! It's time for this battle! ”
Zhu Xieyuan looked back to the west, said such a thing, and then nodded at Liu Zhaoji, who was looking at him with a torch not far away.
"Ignition! Fire! ”
Liu Zhaoji gave an order, and the ten general cannons were ignited in turn, and the sound of "Bang Bang Bang" was endless, and after each sound, there was a place in the Yi camp opposite that shattered!
At a distance of more than 200 steps, a seven-kilogram projectile can be penetrated immediately when it hits the earthen wall, and when it hits the fence to resist the horse, it is even more splashed with broken wood!
The Yi soldiers, who couldn't dodge in the fence, were even knocked to the ground by the projectiles that shattered the fence and the momentum was still unabated.
Ordinary Yi soldiers generally had no armor, only the traditional Yi people dressed in coarse cloth and black, and even the earth, rocks and wood chips that were splashed by live ammunition could cause damage to them.
Ten general cannons rang out one by one, the Yi camp was in chaos, most of the ordinary Yi soldiers, never saw the power of artillery, at this time the cannon sounded, but also carried the power of piercing the gold cracked stone, so that the Yi soldiers in the enemy camp were terrified.
Ten great generals' cannons, one after the other, were lit and fired in turn, and the sound of the cannons rumbled and continued.
In this way, after each artillery shot three times, there were two watchtowers that were repeatedly hit and collapsed, and the archers stationed on the watchtowers naturally needless to say, the watchtowers that were four or five zhang high would definitely die if they fell.
Even the Yi soldiers who were waiting for the battleload with their backs against the watchtowers were stoned to death because of this.
The collapse of the two adjacent watchtowers is equivalent to saying that a front two or three hundred steps wide is free of the threat of arrow rain from above.
Ten general cannons, after the fourth round in turn, another watchtower collapsed.
The horse-rejecting horses and the simple earthen fence in front of the enemy camp were also destroyed for a long time, and a frontal gap of more than 100 units appeared in the entire front of the enemy camp.
Qin Gongming, who was closely behind the artillery array commanded by Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing, immediately ordered the white pole soldiers to launch an attack.
Qin Gongming gave an order, and more than 2,600 white-pole soldiers quickly rushed forward, and when they arrived in front of the Yi camp, they immediately resumed the formation of Qin Kezhong's row of shield formations in front and several rows of spears behind Qin Gongming.
The Yi soldiers, hiding behind the broken fence of the horses, rushed up with a shout and slashed at the shield wall commanded by Qin Kezhong with machetes.
Two regiments of men and horses on both sides crowded into the gap in the earthen fence of the enemy army.
"Kill!" "Close!" "Kill!"
With Qin Gongming's order, the stone pillar white pole soldiers repeated this order sentence by sentence, and at the same time, they also repeated the actions behind each password again and again.
And there are only two actions of all the white pole soldiers, that is, to stab the white pole gun in his hand, retract it, and stab it out again.
While advancing against the crowd of enemy troops, he kept shouting in his mouth and repeating these two simple and crude movements in his hands.
It was these two simple and crude actions, but in less than a quarter of an hour, the Yi soldiers crowded in the gap of the Yi camp were so shocked that they turned around and ran, and even Wu Azhan held a knife behind the crowd to chop those Yi soldiers who dared to retreat, and still couldn't stop the trend of the Yi soldiers retreating in front of the white pole soldiers.
As the white pole soldiers rushed through the gap in the Yi camp, Xu Chengming shouted: "The Yi camp has been broken!" Kill the enemy with me and make meritorious contributions! Come on! ”
After Xu Chengming shouted this, he took out a long-handled Qi knife, and under the shield protection of his own soldiers, he took the lead, followed closely behind the white pole soldiers and rushed into the camp of the Yi people.
Liu Zhaoji, who was eager to try, turned around to ask for battle, but was immediately rejected by Zhu Xieyuan.
Zhu Xieyuan did not look down on the Tiance guards under Liu Zhaoji, on the contrary, he attached too much importance to this guard army trained by the method of the new army and came from the side of His Majesty the Emperor.
A melee like the one in front of him is not suitable for the emperor's guards to participate in the war, on the contrary, it is more suitable for the Baojing native soldiers or the Guangxi wolf soldiers.
Now the Guangxi wolf soldiers are resting in Guowa, but the Baojing native soldiers have followed Xu Chengming through the camp of the Yi people and fought with the Yi soldiers in the enemy camp.
Immediately behind the Baojing Tubing, there were also the Yi soldiers of the Shaxi Luo clan, at this time, everyone wrapped their heads in red cloth to show the difference from the Yi soldiers of the Shuixi An's clan, and killed the Yi soldiers of the Shui'an clan, especially ruthless.
Wu Zhiwang looked at the officers and soldiers who poured into the Yi camp like a tide, stroked his beard and said to Zhu Xieyuan with a smile: "This battle has been won!" The rest depends on what happens! ”
Qin Liangyu, who was also riding a horse and following Zhu Xieyuan's side, heard this, and watched his own white pole soldiers once again rush into the enemy camp first, opening up a way for the army, and he was also proud in his heart, and said:
"Not bad! The firearms of the Tiance Guard and the white pole soldiers of the stone pillar are really a match made in heaven! ”
Zhu Xieyuan rode on a tall horse, looked at the one-sided battle situation in front of him, listened to the words of his right-hand man, and was also happy in his heart, looked back at the sunset that had already sunset, and was about to open his mouth to respond, but suddenly saw that under the sunset in the west, on the hillside in the distance, a black crowd emerged densely!
And I vaguely heard that someone in the crowd rushing in front seemed to be shouting something in Yi!
Zhu Xieyuan looked at the rapidly surging black crowd in the distance, and was shocked, and immediately shouted: "Liu Zhaoji! Mo & Jing! On the left, to the west, there are enemy Yi soldiers! Hurry up and set up! Hurry up and set up! ”
As soon as Zhu Xieyuan's words came out, Wu Zhiwang and Qin Liangyu were both shocked, turned their heads to the west, and sure enough, there was a black crowd of people, rushing towards the rear of the army.
At this time, Qin Liangyu also shouted: "Quickly deploy the gun array and artillery array, protect the lord of the ministry!" ”
At this moment, Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing had also seen the black crowd surging in the distance, there was no doubt that it was Yi Bing!
Although I don't know where this Yi army came from, with the speed and posture of rushing towards the rear of the self-army at this moment, it is definitely an enemy!
At this time, Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing shouted almost at the same time: "The musket team obeys the order!" Facing the West! The artillery team listened to the order and lined up facing the west! ”
The five hundred-man musket teams of the Zhengbing Division under the command of Mo and Jing quickly lined up one team after another, and protected Zhu Xieyuan, Wu Zhiwang, Qin Liangyu, and their guards who had already turned over and dismounted and prepared for battle with knives.
The 500-man squad of the Guerrilla Division personally led by Liu Zhaoji, after listening to Liu Zhaoji's order, quickly went to turn the muzzle of the general's cannon, hurriedly pushed the 10 general's cannons behind the 500-man squad of the Regular Soldier Division commanded by Mo Youjing, and then hurriedly checked and loaded the gunpowder projectiles.
Wang Jianguo, the general of the Nanjing Beijing Battalion, who had been guarding Wu Zhiwang's side, also hurriedly brought some of his gunners to help.
They threw away the artillery, but the art of loading and firing remained.
Before Lisuo was prepared here, the vanguard of the black crowd had already rushed to a hundred steps away from Mo Youjing.
Mo Youjing could already clearly see that the Yi soldier at the front was smiling with his teeth and claws in his hand.