CHAPTER XXIV
The sun was shining brightly, shining on the face with a warm cloud. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Houjin's archers casually lured the Ming army back and forth to attack, then fled, and then continued. In short, as long as this Ming army stops here, they will not be able to reach Fushun tonight, and Fushun will gain time, and under the leadership of Anfeiyangu, Fushun will organize a tighter defense.
Cavalry was of little use for defending the city, and Anferangu, as an old military general, knew this better than anyone.
Anferyangu sent all the cavalry out to slow down the march of the Ming army and constantly harass the supply lines of the Ming army. As long as they continue to harass day and night, even if the tired Ming army finally arrives in Fushun, Anfeiyangu is confident that he will completely annihilate this Ming army under the city of Fushun.
Although Ampheyangu believed that the Houjin warriors would be able to defeat the Ming army more simply in the field, the defeat at the Battle of Shenyang forced him to use a more conservative strategy.
Houjin needed a big victory to eliminate the negative impact of the defeat in Shenyang, and it was not enough to defeat this Ming army in the field, Anferyangu preferred to squeeze the last drop of blood out of this Ming army and then annihilate them all.
Houjin doesn't have enough experience in guarding the city, everyone knows it, but sooner or later Houjin will have to learn this. Since the Ming army intended to attack Fushun, Anfeiyangu did not mind taking advantage of the city of Fushun, as well as the grief of the Houjin warriors who had been depressed for several days and lost the Great Khan, to seriously teach the Ming court a profound lesson.
The commander who led this Houjin cavalry was Nurhachi's nephew, Zilharang. In the cavalry attack plan formulated by Anfeiyangu, the Ming army's baggage troops, which were originally used as a priority attack, were not found. Zilharang was surprised that the Ming army did not let the baggage troops march in isolation, but advanced together with the large forces of the rear army.
Walking with the baggage troops meant that the rear army of the Ming army would become cumbersome and lack mobility, and would not be able to cope with the front army in the event of a sudden situation. Zilharang decisively ordered to attack He Shixian's front army first.
The clever Zilharang found a loophole in the front army of the Ming army, that is, there were not many cavalry in the front army.
So Zilharang used the rangers to lure the cavalry of the Ming army's front army out of the nest, and let the heavy cavalry drag the Ming cavalry for several miles. And the remaining archers in the hands of Zilharang can harass the Ming infantry with impunity.
According to this perfect plan, before the Ming army reached Fushun, they would be reduced to a tired remnant and then easily wiped out.
Looking at the mutual shooting not far away, He Shixian was anxious in his heart, as the top general of the former army, he needed to lead everyone out of the current predicament.
He Shixian's first thought was to delay time to change the unfavorable situation, as long as he changed the situation of the front army being beaten passively, and held on for a period of time, the vanguard cavalry of the front army would rush back, or Chen Ce's rear army would rush over, then this Houjin cavalry would inevitably die and have no place to be buried.
After pondering for a while, He Shixian immediately ordered the ranged attack to be changed from a salvo to a diffuse fire. He Shixian understood that the Tartar archers could not shoot like this all the time, after all, they were human beings and needed to rest, and drawing a bow and shooting arrows was particularly exhausting, not to mention that the horses charging back and forth also needed to rest.
After the change of the Ming army, the covering effect brought by the diffuse made the Houjin cavalry dare not rush too close for a while. The salvo of the Ming army can be estimated by the firing distance and time jam, but the diffuse is random and disorderly, and the Houjin cavalry is already small, and they do not want to make senseless sacrifices, and soon, the casualties of the Ming army are alleviated.
Jilharang quickly realized the adjustment of the Ming army's tactics and strategies, he was obviously also a person with a very good sense of the battlefield, and after a little thought, Jilharang divided the cavalry in his hand into five waves, and kept harassing the Ming army in the way of rotation.
Although under the threat of diffuse, the Houjin cavalry was no longer able to inflict great damage on the Ming army, but the Ming army was also dragged here and could not move forward.
The change in Houjin made He Shixian furious, scolding and scolding, and helpless on the other.
After waiting for a while, there was no news from the vanguard cavalry, and the rear army did not know where.
"Dashuai, let me try."
Looking at Shen Jia with a sincere face, He Shixian asked, "You?" What can you do? These Sun Tzu people are all cavalry, if they can't fight, they will flee, and if they escape, they will come again, how do you deal with them? ā
Shen Jia didn't care about He Shixian's questions, and said, "Uncle He asked your family to get on the horse, follow my assault car, let's try it out in a round, and then come back." ā
He Shixian didn't have much to do at this time, so he could only be a dead horse and a live horse doctor.
The Houjin cavalry did the same, and launched another wave of attacks, and just as the Houjin cavalry was about to turn around and leave, the drums of the Ming army sounded, and a passage was quickly made way in the middle of the ranks. The Houjin cavalry felt a little strange and couldn't help but look back.
Wen Qing had already held her breath, and when she stepped on the accelerator at this time, the assault car rushed out in an instant.
Although he had experience in riding in a chariot, Wei Liangyu, who was standing in the back compartment, still didn't expect Wen Qing to be so violent, and under the effect of inertia, he saw that he was thrown out of the carriage.
Wei Liangyu was in a hurry, reached out and grabbed the railing of the car, and fell back into the carriage in a roundabout. Wei Liangyu, who had regained his footing, looked frightened, clung to the railing of the car, and never dared to let go.
The assault vehicle rushed out of the military formation, and in the sudden sound of diesel engines, it chased after the cavalry of Houjin at high speed.
The cavalry of Houjin had obviously participated in the battle of Shenyang before, and when they saw the monster coming out, they immediately felt bad. The cavalry of the Houjin decisively chose to bypass the left flank of the Ming army, hoping to avoid the pursuit of the monsters.
Shen Jia scolded hatefully: "These grandsons are so cunning. ā
Just as Houjin's cavalry approached the left flank of the Ming army, Shen Jia's machine gun rang out, and in an instant, Houjin's cavalry was like a wheat wave being swung by a sickle, and people and horses fell together. Immediately afterwards, a roaring wave of He Shixian's generals took away the people who were alive underground.
The remaining Houjin cavalry saw that the situation was not good, and accelerated around the left flank of the famous army.
The Tartars didn't know this, but Shen Jiaque knew that since the British taught the Russian cavalry a lesson with the Mini rifled gun, with the advent of the machine gun, the cavalry, which was once highly relied on, was completely swept into history. And his own 7.62 mm high-speed machine gun is the terminator of the Houjin cavalry today.
The Houjin cavalry even thought that the machine guns would be dumb and cool, but the reality turned out to be the opposite of what they imagined. The assault car quickly turned around and rushed towards Houjin's main formation.
The sudden change made Zilharang understand that he might have encountered the monster of the Battle of Shenyang again. He decisively ordered the cavalry of the Kinben formation to retreat, but the speed of the assault vehicles was too fast. While most of the Houjin cavalry were still turning their horses' heads, the assault vehicles had already reached a distance of three hundred meters.
Some of the Houjin cavalry began to whip up faster, but at that moment, the 7.62mm machine gun roared.
In an instant, the neighing of horses and the cries of panicked people were everywhere, and the slower horsemen did not even turn their horses around when they found a bloody hole in their bodies, and then planted their horses. Houjin's cavalry was stunned, no one fought back, and most of them threw down their burdens and even weapons, turned around and ran.
Zilharang's decisiveness saved him, and he distanced himself from the battlefield in the first place. But the Ming army's chariots were too fast, and they quickly pressed up. Listening to the sudden sound of chariots, the Houjin cavalry near Zilharang was even more panicked, and whipped the war horses desperately, lest they fall behind.
The guards embraced Zilharang and hurried desperately towards the hills in the distance. Zilharan had already heard a sudden sound not far behind him, and he felt that he was going to be finished, and that he would never be able to return to Hetuara and pay tribute to his father.
When Zilharan tried to whip again, he suddenly felt a piercing pain in his arm, and soon his guards surrounded him, covering the torn gap behind him.
The battle has just begun, and the curtain will come to an end in an instant. It didn't take long for Shen Jia to stop Wen Qing from continuing the pursuit. Bullets and fuel are important factors that limit the effectiveness of assault vehicles, and it is best to save some money until these two problems are resolved.
He Shixian commanded the infantry to clean up the battlefield in the near distance. Looking at the corpses everywhere and the frightened war horses, He Shixian's mouth opened wide, wanting to say something, but he didn't know how to describe it.
The last time he fought was on the city wall, and the view from a distance was not so real. This battle took place right under his nose, and the visual impact on He Shixian was unforgettable.
He Shixian took a deep breath, looked around, and suddenly had a feeling of heroic twilight.
Dragging his injured arm, Zilharan finally climbed up the low hills, where there would be no danger. He regrouped his ranks, and when he counted them, he found that there were less than 1,200 men left. Zilharang's heart was stabbed, and in less than half a pillar of incense, seven or eight hundred people were killed and wounded, what kind of monster is this.
Although Zilharang knew that he could no longer get close to the Ming army, he still did not want to leave, so he rested on the hills.
Although Zilharang was a little scared, he still had a small calculation in his heart, he thought that as long as he followed the Ming army from afar, so that the Ming army could not march normally, and was always under the threat of death, then this Ming army would sooner or later collapse due to low morale.
This was the idea of Zilharang, and it was also the idea of Fushun An Feiyangu, and they both needed time to build the city defenses.
However, Shen Jia didn't think so. The previous 120 howitzers did not fire, mainly because the firing range was too large and had no effect on the enemy at close range. At this time, the Houjin cavalry had already gathered on the hills two kilometers away, what a good target it was, how could it be missed.
Shen Jia only had one chance, the loading of the howitzer, the interval between shots took about thirty or forty seconds, if he missed one shot, the Tartar cavalry might have already escaped, and he would lose the opportunity to shell again.
Shen Jiazai carefully adjusted the sight and carefully calculated the elevation and firing boundary. Just in time, the cannonballs screamed and struck the hills in the distance, and in an instant they exploded in the middle of the crowd on the hills.
The sharp sound, and the fire and dust from the shells hitting the ground in front of them, shocked all the Ming troops, and they were silent, staring blankly at the battle curtain woven by blood and fire.
Until someone shouted: "Victory!" ā
Only then did the Ming army come back to their senses and shouted: "Victory!" Victory! ā
Shen Jia was glad that he had taken a shit luck, and the cannonball hit the enemy crowd directly and exploded in the middle. The explosion area of 120 howitzers is equivalent to more than half of a basketball court, and the explosion scene is probably terrible. Shen Jia didn't want to go to the scene, so he beckoned Wen Qing to drive the assault car back into the formation.
The Ming army quickly made a way and stared at the chariot with fearful eyes. However, this fear did not last long, and everyone soon felt a strange sense of security. Many people are thinking that this weapon is in their own hands.
A big victory, the appearance of a terrifying weapon, suddenly made the tired Ming army glow with enthusiasm and confidence, and they were not so worried about Fushun dozens of miles away.
The generals of He Shixian's family, who were sent out to inspect the scene of the explosion, returned not long after, and they did not say a word. He Shixian asked them how the situation was on the hills, and before Ding Zhizhi could speak, he was the first to vomit. The other accompanying generals were also miserable when they heard the inquiry.
The remnants of the cavalry of Houjin retreated without looking back. Half an hour later, He Shixian received another report from the vanguard army. At the cost of more than 100 people, the vanguard army killed 203 people and successfully repelled the Houjin cavalry.
He Shixian naturally understood that this was because Jiannu could not achieve the purpose of strategic harassment, so he had to take the initiative to retreat. He Shixian didn't intend to say it, after all, it was a big victory, and everyone needed to be honored. So he gave the order to speed up the march and rush to the front fort, and try to take the front fort at lunch.
The next march was very fast, and the main force of the Later Jin had completely retreated, and occasionally the Later Jin rangers scouted and were chased and driven away by the scattered Ming cavalry. An hour later, the Ming army arrived at Qianbao.
To He Shixian's surprise, the Tartars abandoned the guards of the former fort.
He Shixian smiled bitterly and said to Shen Jia: "It seems that the Tartars are ready to concentrate their forces in Fushun and use the cover of the city to fight to the death. ā
"Of course, Uncle He, don't worry, I promise to break the city on the first day."
You Shigong looked at Shen Jia suspiciously and said, "Shen Shinephew, don't talk big, our heads are pinned to your trouser belt now." ā
Shen Jia smiled.
After eating lunch at the front fort and resting for a while, the group continued on their way. He Shixian sent a herald to report to Chen Ce, and he led the front army to continue to advance.
On the next march, even Houjin's rangers watched from a distance and did not approach to reconnoitre.
This made Shen Jia a little surprised, and said to himself: "It seems that Houjin has finally woken up after suffering hardships, and he learned so fast, but it's a pity that my firepower is lost." ā
Wen Qing glanced at Shen Jia with disdain, and said, "Huan, who is called in front of me, has the ability to take a knife to provoke and take a look." ā
You can't talk about war with women, especially for Wen Qing. On the battlefield, it is all about doing everything, regardless of the moral constraints of bullying the weak. However, Shen Jia still didn't dare to talk back to Wen Qing, so he had to sobbed his face and bowed his head without speaking.