Chapter 776: Breaking the Army, Greedy Wolf, Long Xiang, Thunder, the trump card is out
(Thank you Emperor for the tip!) )
"Come with me!"
On Tong Mountain, Dou Jiande roared, turned over on the horse, jumped on the horse, and waved forward.
Standing on the mountain, he has been watching the breakthrough of the four old brothers, Gao Yaxian and Dong Kangmai. When he saw the fire dragon in the dark night breaking through the southern camp, he almost screamed with joy. Many of the surrounding brothers even shouted to take the opportunity to kill together, so they broke through from the south. It's a pity that after a failure, Luo Yi, a dog thief, had already taken precautions, deliberately left an empty camp for them to break through, and then pincered the brothers who broke through on both sides.
The firelight of the southern camp became brighter and brighter, and Dou Jiande also understood that the more than 80,000 soldiers and horses should no longer want to stand out. Sighing secretly, he knew it was time for them to break through. There are still 70,000 soldiers and horses left, of which 20,000 of the most elite brothers in the old camp of Hejian are equipped with war horses, and the remaining 50,000 are also the essence of the Xia army. Whether it can be killed or not, whether it can make a comeback, everything depends on these 70,000 horses.
The horses' hooves roared, and one by one the old camp brothers in the river roared loudly, following behind Dou Jiande, the line swept away from the mountain like a violent wind, and rushed out of the north camp gate of the cottage!!
At this moment, the charging momentum of 20,000 horsemen, thousands of troops! Like the thawing of the glacier, the breaking of the embankment of the river, and the collapse of the snow-capped mountain!
The 20,000 cavalry looked like an army called Hanako, and the armor and equipment on the cavalry were varied. Even the cavalry at the end of the line was clad in patchwork infantry light armor. It's just a thick piece of iron nailed to his chest. The dirt trampled by the horses' hooves flew, and the gallop of 20,000 cavalry marched down the hill in a triangular formation.
The big battalion in the north is the Beijing Janissary Army led by the old commander of Hebei and Lao Benlei, and there are only 50,000 soldiers and horses, but these 50,000 are all really the most elite Hebei soldiers and horses. More than 30 percent of them were veteran troops who had fought bloody battles in Liaodong that year, and more than half of the 100 battalions had battalion numbers given by Chen Kefu himself. And in the entire Hebei Army, there are battalions with special battalion numbers. No more than a hundred. Li Benlei accounted for half of the army. This army of soldiers and horses is the real essence of the Hebei army, no matter how the various soldiers and horses scattered out are damaged, as long as the Hebei army still retains these more than 50 old battalion generals. can quickly regroup a strong army.
This elite army of the Yulin Army, the Jinwu Guard Army, and the Broken Army and the Wutang School Army was stationed in the north of Tongshan at this time, led by Li Benlei himself, and the two generals of Hebei, Chen Qing and Hu Hai, who had been with Chen Kefu for a long time, were deputies.
Li Benlei was already in a semi-retired state as early as a year ago. Although he is the general of Jin Wuwei, the chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters, he breaks the army and speaks of Wutang Shanzheng, and adds the rank of governor of the government, adds the division of the Taishi, and enters the prime minister. But Chen Kefu had already promised him that he would no longer lead troops into battle, and that he would be allowed to serve in a year or two. But with Li Benlei's second-in-command qualifications as a barracksman, and with his loyalty and firmness to Chen Kefu all the time. His prestige in the Hebei court is very rare, and even Taifu Maoxi is only comparable to him. Today, the marshals Li Jing, Zhang Zhongjian, Yu Qinming and others who are thriving in the Hebei Army are still his juniors.
I haven't been in battle for a long time. Li Benlei is still not old.
On Tong Mountain, Gao Yaxian and other rebels broke through. Li Benlei immediately ordered the whole army to line up and take precautions. The sound of the east attacking the west, such an old trick as turning the tiger away from the mountain, Li Benlei naturally could not be unguarded. Really. It didn't take long for news from Luo Yi's side that although there were many rebels in the breakout, the number was less than 100,000, not all the rebels.
In the dark night, Li Benlei asked all the soldiers to extinguish the torches and lined up in the dark night.
At the forefront were the two former seven commanders of the Liaodong Army, Liu Tiezhu and Zhang Heer.
Zhang He led 5,000 heavily armed Modao infantry, docked the barracks fence, and set up a wide Modao wall. One by one, the Mo sword army was like an iron mountain and a copper wall, wearing thick heavy infantry armor and holding an eight-foot huge Mo sword, and set up a copper wall in front of the camp that glowed with cold light in the dark night. …,
And Liu Tiezhu led the most glorious and glorious 5,000 heavily armored cavalry of the Liaodong Army's broken military camp, as well as the exclusive auxiliary greedy wolf battalion that has always been connected to the broken military camp. The 5,000 exclusive auxiliary soldiers of the broken military camp with Chen Kefu's personal award of the greedy wolf battalion are also the exclusive supplementary troops of the broken military camp, and the 5,000 men and horses are all light horses.
The greedy wolf battalion is an auxiliary, but its equipment is second only to the broken barracks. The Greedy Wolf Battalion is also a light cavalry battalion, but the armor they are equipped with is only lighter than the heavy cavalry, but it is heavier than the normal light cavalry. The broken army and the greedy wolf complement each other, and the 10,000 soldiers and horses are the elite of the elite that Chen Kefu has been reluctant to take out.
At this time, the Longxiang Heavy Infantry Modao Battalion and the Broken Army Heavy Cavalry Battalion, plus the Greedy Wolf Light Cavalry Battalion plus the Five Thousand Thunder Engineer Battalion, these four elite of the real elite under Chen Kefu, the trump card of the trump card, all gathered here at this moment, 20,000 military ranks are at least a strong army composed of non-commissioned officers, like fierce beasts carved of steel with a fierce and silent roar, they are ready to attack, ready to strike a thunderous blow.
In the big camp, under the banner of hunting and fluttering, Li Benlei, Hu Hai, Chen Qing, Zhang He, Liu Tiezhu, one of the fifteen captains who first broke the barracks, and one of the seven commanders of the Liaodong Army that year, were all waiting for Dou Jiande's arrival with bated breath at this time.
These five people were the first generals of the Liaodong Army to follow Chen Kefu, but since the army entered Hebei, Chen Kefu deliberately left them outside the pass. In the past two years, they have commanded the most elite troops under Chen Kefu, but they have been sitting outside the customs and have never had the opportunity to go to the battlefield. As a general, this kind of loneliness and loneliness of not being able to go to the battlefield is unbearable. They helped King Chen guard the rear outside the Guanwai, and commanded King Chen's most elite soldiers and horses, doing King Chen's last reserve army, and watched lonely Li Jing, Yu Qinming, Zhang Zhongjian, Wang Gongren, Luo Zhong, Luo Yi, Qu Tutong, Chen Ling, Yang Shanhui Nine people fought one after another, blocking one side, and now they have quickly become the top ten marshals of the Hebei Army together with Li Benlei.
This made them, the leaders who first followed Chen Kefu, feel very uncomfortable in their hearts. Seeing that the Central Plains had already gone south, and King Chen would not summon them again, the world would be pacified, and the anxiety and longing in their hearts were unknown to ordinary people. This time, they finally waited for King Chen's call, and everyone was holding back their strength to fight a beautiful comeback battle. besieged Dou Jiande for several days, if it weren't for Li Benlei's strict order not to fight without authorization, they would have killed Tongshan and captured Dou Jiande alive. Just now seeing the Xia army breaking through to the south, they were still very disappointed, but they didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Dou Jiande would kill them again.
On Tong Mountain, 20,000 Xia cavalry stormed down, and 10,000 horses galloped, like a river bursting, and the snow-capped mountains collapsed.
At the foot of the mountain, the 50,000 most elite Hebei troops were silent, not even a little panicked or noisy. The black camp made Dou Jiande and others in front of the horse suspect that this Beida camp was an empty camp.
The earth was shaking slightly, and the 70,000 Xia troops were surging towards the northern camp like a swift torrent, and in the rumbling sound of iron hooves, countless torches were burning, like a dazzling band of light. The knights of the Xia army roared wildly as they charged, raising their spears and swords.
It's closer, it's closer, the vanguard of the Xia army's breakthrough cavalry has been getting closer and closer, and the statue-like front Modao army has seen the hideous faces of the Xia army's cavalry under the torches.
Wang Sixing, the head of the Thunder Engineer Battalion, watched the Xia Army, which was getting closer and closer, finally step into the range of the Engineer Battalion, and immediately waved his hand and blew the iron whistle in his mouth vigorously.
"Beep! ~~" The sound of the iron whistle and the screeching sound rang out violently.
The lieutenant colonels and captains of the engineer battalion who had been prepared early gave orders one after another.
"The mine-throwing vehicle is ready, and the two base predetermined targets of the fierce fire oil bomb, smoke bomb, and flowering bomb are fired in a salvo and launched!" …,
The Hebei Army stipulates that the base number of one artillery shell is 400 rounds, and the base number of two shells is 800 rounds. At this time, there were as many as 1,000 long-range equipment such as bed crossbows, catapults, and mine-throwing vehicles in front of the engineer battalion. There are as many as 300 mine-throwing vehicles alone, each with two base 800 rounds, that is, 240,000 rounds. The engineer battalion was fully equipped to give Dou Jiande a saturation covering fire attack.
The well-trained professional sappers began to operate one by one, and countless iron crossbow arrows, stone bullets, and all kinds of gunpowder bullets suddenly rained down like a huge whistling sound, covering the Xia army that was pouring in. For this battle, the engineer battalion has taken out all the ammunition it has brought with it and is ready to use it up all at once.
A violent explosion rang out, the night changed color, and the earth shook.
The 1,000 transport equipment of the engineer battalion was divided into several batches and fired. Wave after wave, it completely reached the saturation coverage of the predetermined battlefield without gaps. Like a meteorite rain falling from the sky, a ** ammunition and crossbow arrows were poured on the battlefield without any interval.
The hundreds of horses that Xia Jun rushed to the front were directly smashed into meat sauce, and none of them could dodge. The sudden blow made Xia Jun change color, but in the face of the death zone in front, Xia Jun was not afraid. They have been fighting with the Hebei army for a long time, and they have long known the power of the Hebei army's firearms.
Fighting one after another, seeing death as home, the Xia army fought hard, and they fought such a fierce covering attack that could not last. They are risking their lives to open the passage to break out, and they are all fighting for the old brothers who have raised troops in the river.
What Xia Jun didn't guess was that they fought, and the Hebei Thunder Engineer Battalion also fought. At this time, in their eyes, the precious ammunition seemed to be worthless, and they didn't need money to launch it towards the Xia army. Groups of sappers desperately carried the ammunition, and when one box was used up, another box was delivered. A large number of professional maintenance engineers stood by the catapults, mine-throwing trucks, and crossbows, and as soon as there was any damage, someone immediately went up to repair it.
Charge, charge, keep charge, take your life to charge.
Fire, launch, sustain fire, unspaced saturation coverage ranged attacks.
The Xia army is fighting for people, and the Hebei army is fighting for ammunition. The cannon roared, the iron hooves rumbled, and at the foot of the north mountain of Tongshan, a huge death zone was formed, and the battlefield meat grinder. In the firelight, this open area in front of the Hebei military camp is like a huge mouth opened by a demon, ruthlessly devouring all the lives in front of it.