Chapter 572: Two Kinds of Waiting
Thousands of Tartars, leading their horses, tired and confused, walked to their tents, ready to rest.
A very dull roar suddenly reached their ears.
Just as they turned their heads to look in the direction where the sound was coming from, the sharp and very piercing whistling sound of cannonballs followed directly behind them and reached their ears.
Tartar, who had fought many times with the Tiger and Par Army and was very familiar with this voice, was directly covered with horror with his tired facial expression.
Before they could react, more than fifty flowering bombs, with a whistling, had already smashed into their barracks.
The deafening explosion had just sounded in the Tartar barracks, and a ball of fire, mixed with a large amount of black smoke, rose from the chaotic ground.
Of course, along with the fireball, there were various fragments that quickly scattered around after the explosion of the flowering shell.
Dense and scorching fragments, swept by the scorching waves, were like a storm of steel, ravaging every Tartar and their crotch horses in the barracks.
Under the illumination of the fire generated by the explosion of the flowering shells, it can be clearly seen that at the moment when more than 50 flowering shells exploded, more than 100 Tartars and their cavalry under their crotches were like kites with broken strings, and they fell directly to the ground and turned into corpses.
As for the rest of the Tartars, especially the Tartars who witnessed the tremendous power of the flowering bomb, it was as if they were directly petrified, and they stood in place for a long time without reacting.
However, this love affair did not last long, and was interrupted by the whistling of the second round of flowering bombs that followed.
In the face of the violent explosions that constantly sounded around him. Facing the scorching waves that continue to sweep towards him. In the face of the ubiquitous fragmentation of flowering projectiles in the air...... Inside the barracks, there was chaos. Dozens or hundreds of Tartars, with the despair before death, fell heavily to the ground, life and death uncertain.
As for the other tartars, they reacted directly from petrification as if they had been stimulated by something. Then, with a frightened face, he scurried around in the already chaotic barracks. Hopefully I could find a corner where I could hide from the shelling.
Compared with the chaos of the Tartars, the war horses under their crotches became even more chaotic. Stimulated by the fire, the sound of explosions, and even death, the war horses, which had just been very docile, were like wild horses that had gone mad at this moment. Directly broke free from the reins of the war horse held by the Tartar in his hand, and went on a rampage in the barracks regardless of Qiē.
In the eyes of these already frightened war horses. They can't tell what to hit and what not to hit. Inside the chaotic barracks. As long as it is in front of them, whether it is a Tartar soldier or a tent that is very easy to run through and ignite...... It's all the object of their rampage.
So, when more and more war horses, stimulated by artillery fire, fell into madness. The equally frightened Tartar soldiers, in front of the crazy war horses, were like toys, and they were directly knocked into the air, without any accidents.
As for the Tartar generals, although they were very lucky, none of the flowering bullets that kept falling in the air hit their side.
However, in the face of the military camp, which quickly fell into panic and chaos, the heart of the Tartar commander was simply heavier than being directly hit by a flowering bullet.
Because, the Tartar lord clearly saw that in the chaotic military camp, the number of Tartars killed and injured by war horses far exceeded the number killed and injured by the Tiger and Par Army's flowering bombs.
In such a situation, the first reaction of the Tartar master is to stop this chaos. Otherwise, after all the thousands of war horses in the barracks fall into chaos, there is no need for the Haw Par Army to continue to fire at the barracks, just those war horses are enough to fat the soldiers under their command and pay a very heavy price.
But it is easier said than done to stop this chaos amid the constant sound of flowering bomb explosions.
The first thing that came to the mind of the Tartar commander was to order his men to quickly withdraw from the barracks. Only by getting rid of the shelling can the warriors under their command regain their composure and control their already mad horses.
However, when the order was given to him to withdraw from the barracks, no one in the military camp of Nuoda responded.
Of course, this is not the fault of the generals under the command of the main general, because these generals also want to withdraw from the barracks as soon as possible under the threat of death. Otherwise, no one dares to guarantee that the war horse, which has gone crazy, will not crash directly into him.
Facing the main general who is very anxious in front of him and has a gloomy face. A Tartar general directly reported with a face full of remorse: "General, now the barracks are in chaos everywhere, and there is no way to pass on orders at all......"
"We knew that the Haw Par Army would attack us, and we shouldn't have let our guard down just now and ordered the soldiers to disband. If the warriors are still gathered together, in a fighting state. No matter how fierce the artillery fire of the Haw Par Army is, the officers and men under their command will not become so chaotic......"
The Lord General directly retorted with a gloomy face: "Enough, shut up for me, is it still useful to say this now?" ”
In the roar of the main general, an hour ago was still an unruly group of subordinates. At this moment, in the face of death, they all lowered their heads. At the same time, a deep sense of remorse also appeared on their faces.
Just after their expectant eyes all gathered on the Dao Master. The gloomy face of the chief general seemed to have made a decision, and he directly opened his mouth and ordered.
"I can't stay here any longer, or I'll be killed by a war horse if I don't get killed by a shell. Ben decided to immediately break through the siege, evacuate Shanxi, return to Houjin, and report the situation here to the Great Khan......"
"Generals, take your guards and disperse them at once, and gather as many of your men as you can in the midst of the chaos. After finishing, he decided on the time and direction of the breakout, quickly left the barracks, and began to break through...... We still have thousands of warriors, and I am sure that there will be warriors who will break out and find the Great Khan ......."
This decision of the Tatar commander can definitely be called the most timely and wisest for the Houjin army, which is becoming more and more chaotic.
Because, in the constant shelling of the Haw Par Army, the longer they stay in the barracks, the fewer troops they can use to break through in the end.
If you don't do this, breaking through in the night, although you have to take a very big risk, but in the night, the powerful firearms of the Tiger and Leopard Army also have no way to burst out with great power.
Under such circumstances, for the Houjin army, which is getting smaller and smaller, this military order is undoubtedly the wisest.
On the battlefield, where the sound of artillery was incessant and the chaos was becoming more and more chaotic, the Tartar generals, who had quickly dispersed, did not dare to stay in the chaos for too long.
Therefore, after the order of the commander-in-chief was issued, everyone retreated directly outside the barracks in a straight line in a different direction.
As for how many subordinates can follow him in the end, it can only depend on luck.
When more than a dozen and Tartar generals, with their own soldiers, they killed ghosts and ghosts, and killed gods when they met gods, and rushed out of the barracks all the way. The Tartars who followed them were no more than two hundred.
The barracks, which were loaded with more than 4,000 Tartars and the same number of war horses, finally managed to break out, and there were not even 2,000 people. As for the rest, they are still trapped in the barracks, waiting for death to come to them little by little.
Successfully rushed out of the barracks, looking at the Tartars who had survived the catastrophe, although they were full of sympathy for the remaining Tartars in the barracks, but in the face of the two choices of death and survival, these Tartars did not hesitate to choose to live. Under the leadership of their respective generals, they disappeared into the night without looking back, and began their road full of hardships to break through.
In the huge military formation of the Tiger and Leopard Army, although Zhao Yun had no way to see the chaos in the Tartar military camp clearly. However, under the illumination of patches of firelight, the picture of the Tartars beginning to break through was still clearly visible in front of Zhao Yun.
Faced with this change in front of him, Zhao Yun couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Seeing that there are still sober-minded generals in the Houjin army, I know that I will break through immediately, and the strong man will break his wrist...... However, whether they can break through the net I have laid for them depends on their fate. ”
"Now that the main forces of the Tartars have withdrawn from the barracks, they began to break through. In the chaotic camp of the Tartars, the remaining Tartars have nothing to fear...... Order, heavy artillery regiments, to continue the shelling of the Tartar barracks, kill and wound them, create chaos. Garrison three regiments, leaving to protect the heavy artillery regiment. One, two, two regiments, immediately began to attack, encircling the Tartar barracks. The Tartars come out one and kill the other, and the Tartars must not be allowed to continue to break through. ”
More than 4,000 Tartar cavalry, excluding more than 1,000 who escaped from the barracks. Excluding the thousands of people who were killed by the flowering bombs, the thousands who died in the chaos, and the thousands who were killed and injured by war horses, in the end, there were not even a thousand people who needed two garrison regiments to do it.
As the night slowly fades away, the battlefield is once again shrouded in light. In the barracks of Tarzino, there was hardly any sign of activity except for the screams and hisses.
As for the more than a thousand Tartars who rushed out of the barracks, they were intercepted by several garrison regiments. Already demoralized, they except for a few who dived deep into the mountains and planned to hike back to Houjin's Tartars. The remaining Tartars were all wiped out on the way to the breakout.
The Houjin army, which numbered less than 20,000 people, plundered the territory of Shanxi for several days, but finally could not escape the end of the annihilation of the entire army.
At this moment, on the battlefield of Liaodong, Huang Taiji, who has tens of thousands of iron horsemen, is waiting for good news from the Central Plains with an anxious face.
Wei Zheng, who confronted him, was also waiting. He didn't know that Shanxi had been attacked by the Tartars, and he was also anxious, waiting for the Houjin army to confront him, when he ran out of food, when he couldn't hold on, and took the initiative to fight a decisive battle with himself to end this battle that had lasted for more than a month.
The only difference is that Huang Taiji's waiting is full of worries and unknowns. Because, he didn't know whether his plan would succeed or whether the army he sent out would have the strength to complete the task.
And Wei Zheng's waiting, but he looked like he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai platform. This is because the Haw Par Army has very sufficient food reserves in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, which is enough to support the Haw Par Army to fight a high-intensity battle that lasts for a year or two.
At this moment, the news that the 20,000-strong army had suffered a crushing defeat in Shanxi and that almost the entire army had been wiped out was placed in front of the two heroes at the same time, as if it had been discussed. (To be continued......)