Chapter 133: The two armies face off

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In November of the first year of the Apocalypse, winter has come.

The cold Siberian wind came one after another, as if there was no end, and the biting cold froze Liaodong into a land of ice and snow.

In such a cold and snowy situation, the guerrilla squad finally stopped a little. In winter, there was nothing to destroy the production activities, and the Hermes-epitek guerrillas had already returned to Dongjiang Town in droves.

On the ninth day of November, a Dongjiang army of more than 2,000 men crossed the Yalu River from Korean territory and launched an attack on Zhenjiang (Dandong).

There were only more than 500 Jiannu in Zhenjiang City, and when they saw the menacing Dongjiang army, they hurriedly closed the city and defended it. In fact, these Jiannu are not good at defending the city, and there are still some Han people and Han troops in the city, so it is obviously not difficult to capture Zhenjiang. However, after a few days of fighting, the two thousand Dongjiang troops did not defeat Zhenjiang, and finally simply surrounded Zhenjiang.

As early as when the Jiannu in Zhenjiang City was attacked by the Dongjiang Army, they asked Erbeile Amin for help.

At this time, Amin was full of grievances and fire, and was planning to take advantage of the freezing of the Yalu River in winter to gather troops to attack the Dongjiang Army in North Korea, but the Dongjiang Army jumped out by itself, and suddenly broke free from the shackles like a mad dog that had been chained for a long time, and immediately gathered the main force to quickly kill Zhenjiang. It was decided to destroy the Dongjiang army in Zhenjiang first, and then take advantage of the situation to enter Korea.

The plan is very good, in the winter of history, Amin did enter North Korea and attack Mao Wenlong's troops. It's just that this time is obviously very different from the situation in history.

Everyone in Jiannu has a war horse, and their mobility is naturally very strong. It took only two days to rush to Zhenjiang, but as soon as the blue flag arrived in Zhenjiang, the 2,000-strong Dongjiang Army troops dispersed in a hurry and retreated directly into North Korea. Amin pounced on the air again, and his nose was almost crooked.

The Dongjiang Army is simply like a swarm of flies, no matter when it swarms everywhere, when it wants to shoot, it finds that it can't be photographed at all.

was about to chase him to North Korea, but he reported it later. The Dongjiang Army attacked Lushun again, and then began to launch an offensive in the direction of Jinzhou. And the number of troops is even greater, reaching more than five thousand.

"Hit the mark! This is the transfer of the tiger from the mountain. Amin reacted suddenly and found that Amin had been tricked. Thunderous again. At this time, if we continue to pursue North Korea, then Jinzhou will definitely not be protected, and the defenders of Jinzhou are only more than 800 people. After all, the Dongjiang Army only attacked them from the islands and from the DPRK. But if Jinzhou is lost, it will be easier for the Dongjiang army to launch an attack on them.

Under such concerns, Amin hurriedly ordered to kill Jinzhou, but in order to prevent the Dongjiang army from attacking Zhenjiang again, Amin left about 1,000 troops to defend Zhenjiang. As a result, the army in Amin's hands became about 7,000. One of the blue flags was 33 Niu Lu, which had been divided into small units to fight with the guerrillas, and had already killed and wounded more than 2,000 people.

However, when Amin attacked Jinzhou City, the Hongzui Fort area encountered the main force of the Dongjiang Army.

The Fifth Infantry Division of the Beijing Battalion led by Zhang Kuotu directly blocked the road to support Jinzhou with the blue flag, and did not engage in any ambush warfare. The terrain here is not very permitting. Instead, it is blocked in a dignified way.

The two armies had not yet fought, and the scouts on both sides had already been fought. Obviously, the cavalry of the Ming army was not the opponent of the Jiannu scouts in terms of personal martial arts. However, the scouts of the Dongjiang Army were also fully armed, not badly equipped, and had a bloody nature that dared to fight, so they were not defeated in the confrontation, but only slightly inferior.

Jiannu's scouts still broke through the blockade of the Dongjiang Army scouts, reconnoitred the situation of the 5th Infantry Division of Jingying, and then reported it to Erbel Amin.

"Lord Belle, there are only more than 10,000 people in the Ming army, and they dare to fight us in the wild. It's definitely a great opportunity! ”

"Yes! They definitely want to hold us back and buy time to conquer Golden State. ”

A few of the armor lamas with the blue flag suddenly clamored, but Amin was a little suspicious and said, "Wait a little longer." Let's see if there are any Ming troops around. ”

So scouts were sent out again to reconnoiter the surrounding area.

For a time, the 5th Infantry Division of the Beijing Battalion was surrounded by reconnaissance cavalry with blue flags, and at the same time, the reconnaissance cavalry with blue flags also reconnoitred the surrounding area for dozens of miles, but did not find any other Ming troops.

When the news came back, Amin was overjoyed. A smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he said, "Since the Ming army is looking for death." Then let's teach them a lesson, and let them see how powerful our Dajin is. ”

The successive victories have made the Jiannu people very arrogant, especially for the field battle, they are extremely confident.

Immediately ordered to set up a position and approach the Ming army's position.

The Fifth Infantry Division saw that Jiannu was pressed up with a blue flag, and it also set up a position. The two sides lined up in the field and set up a decisive battle. Both sides are eager to fight, so a decisive battle in the field is about to break out.

Amin came to the front of the battle to make some observations, and found that this group of Ming troops were wearing red battle robes and were extremely well-equipped. This is similar to those guerrilla armies of the Dongjiang Army, and Amin is not too surprised in this regard, but the red uniforms of the Ming army have never been seen.

"What kind of troops is this?" Amin was confused and couldn't help but have some doubts. At the same time, I saw that in front of the Ming army, rows of musketeers were lining up to prepare, and the spears behind were like a forest, which made people's scalps tingle.

"Baylor, let's fight!"

"This group of people is also useless."

A few of them began to speak for battle, and Amin muttered for a while, and then ordered: "Pass my order and attack in formation." ”

"Yes."

Immediately one after another, orders were issued, and many Jiannu soldiers began to dismount and prepare. In fact, Jiannu's combat mode is not entirely cavalry, mainly infantry, after all, Jiannu was active in the mountains before, and it is not that he will not be able to ride or shoot on horseback, but in the face of the army of the Ming Dynasty, it is obviously not of great effect.

The power of horse shooting is relatively small, and if you really want to defeat the Ming army, it is obviously not ideal to ride and shoot on horse. On the contrary, he dismounted and shot arrows, which were more powerful and more intensive, often disrupting the formation of the Ming army, and then launching a charge.

Whining......

Jiannu's offensive horn began to sound, heralding the official start of a decisive battle in the field.

In the sound of a low horn, hundreds of deep mountain cavalrymen dressed in armor and cotton prices, and horses were also hung in vests, wrapped like tin cans, and the cavalry was the first to rush out of the army formation with blue flags.

This group of Jiannu cavalry wrapped all over their bodies. Rushed to the front of the 5th Infantry Division and began to clear the obstacles set up by the 5th Infantry Division.

That's right, the main role of these hoplites is to deal with the obstacles set up by the Ming army. Provide guarantee for the subsequent offensive.

At the same time, thousands of Jiannu archers, armed with heavy bows, stepped forward towards the position of the 5th Infantry Division.

Hundreds of 'engineer cavalry' of Jiannu, with the help of the speed of horses. Quickly rushed to a hundred meters in front of the Ming army, where the first line of fortifications was located. The Fifth Infantry Division set up a lot of horse rejection on these fortified defense lines, which can be understood as ancient 'barbed wire'.

After Zhang Kuantu saw Jiannu's movements, he immediately ordered: "The archers are on standby, and the musketeers are shooting." ”

"Yes."

The herald quickly passed the order on.

"All of them, ready...... Put. "With the waving of the flag, the commander of the musket phalanx of the 5th Infantry Division gave the order.

"Bang, bang......"

Thousands of musketeers fired a volley at the Sappers who were dismantling the horses in front of them, and the flames flashed, and wisps of white smoke rose up. Dense lead projectiles were fired at the target.

In an instant, hundreds of Jiannu cavalry fell off their horses, some were directly killed, and some were injured on the spot. More often than not, the horses were hit with buckshot, throwing off the cavalry above.

Although these are wrapped like tin cans, they are not very effective in protecting against buckshot at a distance of 80 meters. Those cotton prices are still very useful to deal with the three-eyed guns used by the Ming army in the north in the past, but there is obviously no way to deal with flintlock pistols.

In the past, Jiannu bullied the Ming army's three-eyed gun, which was not widely used, so it created such a strange 'fortification demolition' tactic. As long as the basic mountain is put on iron armor and cotton armor, it is okay to stand there and fight the Ming army, as long as it is not too unlucky and is hit by artillery. The three-eyed guns and arrows were shot at the body, and there was not much of a threat.

However, this set of demolition tactics is obviously not so easy to use in front of the Beijing camp equipped with a large number of flintlock pistols. The power of the Ming army's guns suddenly startled Amin and the others who were observing the battlefield.

"The musket of the Ming army is so powerful! Lord Belle. This ......"

"Go on."

Amin is also a battle-hardened person, so naturally he is not a soft-hearted person, how can he be frightened by a little casualty? I just went up and didn't officially start fighting, so I retreated, and it was a fart battle. However, I was still shocked by the power of the Ming army's flintlock pistols, when the guerrillas were dispatched in large numbers before, Jiannu had already captured a batch of flintlock pistols, and the power was already known, but the scene of the salvo was obviously the first time I had seen it.

After a round of guns, only hundreds of Jiannu were killed, and this efficiency was obviously not very satisfactory. However, when these Jiannu cavalry rushed up, they were relatively scattered, and their bodies were relatively well protected, and the distance was not completely close. It's really shocking to be able to achieve such an effect.

"Reload all."

As the musketeers of the 5th Infantry Division began to reload, those cavalrymen who rushed up immediately began to destroy the rejection horses, taking advantage of the gaps in the reloading, quickly destroying some of them and beginning to destroy the rest.

"Ready...... Put! ”

"Bang Bang ......"

The smoke of gunpowder rose, and the Jiannu cavalry who had destroyed the fortifications in front fell again, but because of the dispersion of personnel, the overall casualty rate was not high. The rejection of horses is still being destroyed.

After only three volleys, the rejection of the first line of defense was almost destroyed. For this reason, Jiannu left nearly 300 corpses.

Jiannu's archers finally pressed up at this time, and approached to a distance of seventy meters. The Jiannu archers put on heavy arrows and drew their bows in unison.

Woohoo......

Dense heavy arrows flew into the sky, suddenly obscuring the winter sun. Then heavy arrows rained down on the top of the Ming army's head, so terrifying that it made people's scalps tingle.

"Ready, put!"

Bang bang~!

The smoke of gunpowder rose, and dense buckshot shot out, but it was the last to come first, and in an instant, the densely arranged Jiannu archers fell in pieces.

And the heavy arrows thrown by Jiannu also poured down! (To be continued.) )