Volume 4 Looking Back at the Township Pass 47 Two wins
The Haidong soldiers, who were ordered to raid Pan Cheng's rear formation, bypassed the hills far away and sneaked close to Pan Cheng's main position.
At that time, Liaodong was far less developed than that of later generations, and it coincided with the war, and the economy withered. Pan Cheng's hundreds of cattle were collected from all the neighboring counties before they could barely be put together. It can be seen that the land is vast and sparsely populated.
Large tracts of land are uncultivated or barren. Near the hills, there are bushes and groves. The hundreds of Haidong soldiers, with the help of the cover of the forest, quietly appeared on Pan Cheng's flank. Pan Cheng's right flank was cavalry, and the left flank was infantry, so he didn't have time to set up camp, so he erected some rejecting horses, and the power was full.
The large horses could be more than a foot long, sharpened with trees, or simply with spears, and placed in a row in suitable places to block the enemy's advance. Most of the time, they will also use iron chains to entangle the horses so that the enemy cannot move.
Haidong's military system, with less than ten people, is divided into three groups. Two threesomes, one foursome. There are three or four people in each group, with old pawns, descended pawns, and new pawns respectively. With an experienced veteran as the team leader, he is at the forefront of the battle. The group members are divided into left and right, forming a small triangular sharp array. In the process of operation, the team leader flexibly commands the team members in accordance with the orders of the superiors; While obeying the command of the group leader and destroying the enemy, the team members are responsible for protecting the two wings of the group leader.
Between the three groups of each team of ten, the group of the nine captains is the spearhead. The other two groups were also on the left and right, protecting the two wings of the spearhead group, forming a large triangular formation.
In wartime, if there are casualties among the members of the group, the soldiers in close proximity to each other can consciously move closer to each other to form a new combat group, with the oldest and most experienced military leader as the new leader. This tactic came from Deng She's previous life, and he used it in battle experimentally, and the effect was excellent, so it was vigorously promoted and set as a military system.
-- People's energy is limited, and it is impossible to "see six ways and listen to all directions" in the line of fire. Working in groups of three can enable the members of the group to have a clear understanding of their position, understand their combat missions, and do their best to keep the unit's structure intact, enhance unity, and give full play to their combat capability.
In the face of the rejection of horses blocking the way, Haidong soldiers jumped out, three as a group, three to form a team, three ten-person teams, and another brigade. A brigade deals with a rejecting horse, the front row holds up a small shield to resist the enemy's arrows, and the rear row inserts a gun and a ge into the bottom of the rejecting horse.
Two or three brigades, nearly 100 people worked at the same time, and they forcibly opened a passage.
Pan Cheng's troops on the left flank numbered about four or five hundred people, the size of a thousand households, all of whom were old soldiers. They had been engrossed in watching the ox-cart charge at the front line and preparing for the charge, when suddenly an enemy army came out of the side, and after a short period of confusion, two hundred-man teams hurriedly met them.
Haidong came a total of three hundred-man teams, divided into one hundred and ten battle groups, combining points and covering each other, and the tigers on the mountain were unstoppable. The two sides collided in one place and were killed.
The principle of the three-three system is to use more and fewer strikes to eliminate the enemy's inferior forces with locally superior forces as much as possible.
A ten-man squad of the Haidong army faced a ten-man squad of the enemy. It first divided into two three-man combat teams and entangled most of the enemy's ten-man team. The remaining four-man battle group, led by the Commander of the Nine, quickly surrounded the other two enemies that had been divided.
The Ninth Master stepped forward, dodging the oncoming spear, and slashed down with the long knife in his hand. The enemy screamed and fell to the ground, trying to cover the wound on his thigh, which was deep enough to show bones. The Ninth Commander didn't look at it, and followed closely with the long knife, blocking a shot from the second enemy.
One of his crew members to his left, rolled twice on the ground, dodged arrows fired from a distance, grabbed the side of the wounded enemy, rolled over, and held him down.
The wounded enemy, who was also an old pawn and had combat experience, hurriedly threw away his spear, took out the short knife at his waist, and poked it upward. The member on the left stretched out his foot, stepped his hand holding the knife on the ground, and just half knelt and half pressed on him, lifted the iron jacket he wore on his head, and clasped his hands together, and the short sword cut his throat.
The second enemy of the Ninth Master, skilled in martial arts, couldn't be cleaned up in a hurry. The crew on his right swooped in behind the enemy, rubbed himself and threw him to the ground. The enemy flipped twice, but couldn't get over. The spear is too long to be used. He turned his head and opened his mouth to bite the neck of the member on the right.
The team member on the right screamed in pain and struggled to break away. The Ninth Master stepped forward, grabbed the enemy's helmet, lay his long knife flat, stabbed out vertically, through his shoulder blades, and penetrated deep into his body. The enemy struggled twice, spat blood, and died with his eyes open. The Ninth Master drew back his long knife, and his blood was like a fountain.
After killing these two people, the Ninth Master took the members of his group and transferred to support the other two groups. Using the same tactics, it didn't take long for them to completely destroy a ten-man squad of the enemy at the cost of three dead and one wounded.
If it is a simple hand-to-hand fight, with the cooperation and combat effectiveness of Haidong's soldiers, it is not an impossible task to break down Pan Cheng's flank, and then disrupt the formation of his front formation, causing him to be surrounded by the chaos of the strong men, and finally achieve the goal of slowing down their attack.
However, Pan Cheng soon noticed the change in the flanks.
At this time, the oxcart formation on the front line had completed the second wave of the collision, and Haidong's shield defense line was in danger. He was impatient to engage this small group of enemies, so he followed the advice of his staff, waved his hand to the back, and two teams of firefighters pulled twenty or thirty ordnance, escorted by several groups of heavy foot soldiers, rushed to the left flank and joined the battle circle.
The two hundred-man teams that were the first to resist on the left flank had already suffered all casualties, and the three hundred-man teams that were supplemented later were still retreating step by step under the skilled and effective killing skills of the Haidong soldiers. When they saw the muskmen coming, they knew the power of the ordnance, shouted and retreated.
Twenty or thirty ordnance bodies were laid out in a row, with copper pipes on the top, cabinets and copper gourds on the bottom, all of which were made of cooked copper, and which were full of kerosene, which was very heavy.
There is a fire tower in front of the copper pipe, and the fire guards have already warmed it up, and it is burned red. They pulled the copper pipe vigorously, and pulled the kerosene up through the pipe that connected the copper pipe to the cabinet and the copper hoist. Then push the copper pipe forward and shoot out the kerosene. When the kerosene passes through the fire building, it ignites and erupts burning kerosene.
This kind of ordnance is the famous fierce fire oil tank, which was invented in the Northern Song Dynasty. Naha sent reinforcements to Pan Cheng. The distance of its spray can reach five or six meters.
Twenty or thirty pillars of fire are burning, and everyone in them is eroded, and water cannot be extinguished. The two sides have been fighting fiercely so far, and it is almost noon, and the wind is rising, and the wind is helping the fire, and the flames are rising more and more. Two or three Haidong soldiers couldn't dodge, the flames scurried their clothes, their hair burned, and they were burned into a burning man in the blink of an eye.
More than a dozen brave Haidong soldiers did not retreat, holding bright long knives, and rushed forward, trying to kill the fire pawns.
The heavily armed foot soldiers protecting the fire pawn formed an arc formation, and the defense was impenetrable. He is heavily armoured, and his armor is heavy, and it is difficult for swords and guns to penetrate. Because of the convenience of the surprise attack, Haidong's soldiers wore light armor at most, not opponents, and tried their best, and more than a dozen people killed three or four heavily armed foot soldiers, and all of them died.
Pan Cheng's firefighters set fire to it while slowly moving forward. The Qianhu Office on the left flank, taking advantage of the opportunity, stabilized its position, and seconded a hundred and ten archers from other battalions, and it seemed that they were about to form a formation. The Haidong officer who led the team made a quick decision, and after breaking it with a dozen shields, he issued an order to retreat.
300 raiding troops, killing 180 enemies and inflicting 80 self-inflicted losses. Disrupted the enemy's plan and declared it a failure.
Pan Cheng's oxcart formation began the third wave of impact.
Guan Shirong looked at the enemy formation from afar and saw the flames spewing out of the fierce fire oil tank. His heart moved, and he drew his knife and cut a piece of his cloak, held it in front of his eyes, and looked at it intently.
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The family treasure stared intently, worried.
These days, although he launched more and more sieges every day, the duration of each siege was getting shorter and shorter. Although he brought tens of thousands of soldiers, even if he changed all over the place, the troops were not iron-clad after all, and the manpower was poor. The physical strength of the soldiers is becoming more and more unbearable.
Today, from the early days to the present, he has been attacking the city continuously for half a day, and all the new forces that can be used have been dispatched. Yes, there are still more than 10,000 people in his battalion, but these more than 10,000 people just attacked in the middle of the night last night, and the night battle is more laborious than the day battle, and they are already exhausted and unable to fight.
Shi Jiabao knew that the reason why the defenders of Huihe City were able to hold on tenaciously in such an embarrassing situation was simply because there was a stoic defender in the city.
He once tried to go to the city to shoot a surrender book and surrender Li Ye, and Li Ye returned to him by killing all the prisoners. He also promised the defenders of the city, no matter who it was, as long as they killed Li Ye and opened the city gate, they would all be rewarded and rewarded with high-ranking officials. The defenders responded to him by pulling all the aliens in the city who had been held in one place to the head of the city and beheading them all, as a sign of incompatibility with him.
ββThere were many Mongol tribes in Huihe Zhou, so there were some Mongols and Semu people in the city
"Shoot a man before a horse, capture a thief and capture the king first."
Saga turned his gaze to the southern corner of the city.
In the south corner of the city, Li Ye was leading the reserve team to fight bloodily with the Yuan army that broke into the city.
Li Ye's reputation in the Haidong Army is not too obvious. Since he moved to Liaoxi, Shijiabao has only heard of his name, and he didn't pay attention to it, far less than Guan Shirong. Who would have expected that Guan Shirong rushed to the aid of Lu Yang and blocked his progress, but it was this Li Ye who had no reputation.
The family treasure looked intently for a while, and saw that Li Ye became more and more courageous.
Shi Jiabao knocked on the horizontal log where he was sitting on the bed, and he decided not to delay any longer, and nodded twice to the southern corner of the city, and said, "The red thieves have no reserves. Li Ye, the head of the Red Thief Canal, is brave and brave, rushing to the dangerous place, and our army in the south corner of the city is strong, and this is a good opportunity to kill him. If he dies, the city will be destroyed. Barth, you are the most famous warrior in my western Liaoxi tribes, this official gives you a cup of tea, can you offer Li Ye's head to me? β
Balsi, which means tiger in Mongolian. can be named in this name, which shows the courage of his people.
Behind the family treasure, a strong man strode out. He was eight feet tall, with a large waist and a round waist, and he walked like a mountain of meat, wearing three layers of heavy armor and carrying a large axe. He was also tall, his body was strong, his armor was heavy, and his big axe was heavy, and when he was added to one place, the weight was even more amazing, and the ground trembled twice when he took two steps.
He took the order, led dozens of family treasures' personal soldiers, and rushed to the south corner of the city with a roar.
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The third wave of the oxcart formation rushed to the front of Guan Shirong's formation.
The shield-bearer did not continue to resist, and with a bang, the two sides were suddenly separated. The oxcart couldn't pull it, stuffed its head, and rushed out dozens of meters away with a breath. A few shield bearers who were slower to dodge were brought down by the ox cart, and they didn't have time to scream, and they were suddenly trampled and crushed into a blur of flesh and blood.
The spearman behind the shield hand had already retreated a hundred paces in advance before the shield man retreated.
The trebuchet in the hub area of the formation smashed the stone over the head and face. Guan Shirong didn't bring artillery, and left it all to Li Ye to defend the city. The trebuchet is close to the left, and the crossbow shoots hard. It's a pity that the number of trebuchets and crossbows is not large, and the damage is limited. More than forty improvised death squads pushed several wooden carts in front of the galloping footsteps of the ox carts.
The wooden cart is large and has a fan in the middle.
The soldiers turned vigorously and created artificial wind, blowing up the dust on the ground, and the dust and smoke were billowing up. This thing is called a dust car, not only can the wind roll up the dust, but also the pre-placed poisonous smoke and lime in the carriage, which come out with the wind, and can cause nosebleeds. It was also invented in the Song Dynasty.
Deng She raised troops in Yongping, and when he passed through Liaoxi, he had a field battle, listened to Heguangxiu's strategy, and defeated the enemy army. Deng She got the sweetness, and later made many dust trucks and distributed them to the armies, which could be used not only in field battles, but also in city defense battles.
Poisonous smoke, lime, and dust rose one after another, covering the sky and the earth.
The cows pulling the cart couldn't stand it, and many of them lost their bull's eyes, crashed and jumped, and several dusty carts were hit by them one after another. The soldiers behind the car dispersed in a hurry. At this point, the herd seems to be in chaos, and the oxcart array seems to be broken, but it is not. Although the speed of their impact was slow and chaotic, they did not change their general direction, and they still collided in the Haidong formation. If it is not stopped in time, it will be difficult to maintain the formation of the gunmen and the large formation of the Chinese army lined up a hundred paces away.
Guan Shirong stood on the watchtower and saw Pan Cheng's main force, after repelling the raiding Haidong soldiers, continued to advance, and the distance between him and his own army's main formation was less than two miles.
"Set fire."
The gunners of the second line, no different from the shield-bearers, made a loud noise and split to the sides, revealing several large piles of wood and dry wood behind them.
It turned out that Guan Shirong saw Pan Cheng set fire to the enemy, and was inspired, taking advantage of the front, trebuchet, dust trucks, and the cover of the three lines of defense, he mobilized hundreds of people to go to the groves and bushes on the side of the hill to cut down and collect some wood. Not much, but enough to make a fire.
The fire is lit.
Firelight, smoke, arrows, drums, horns, thousands of Haidong soldiers beat their weapons and shouted in unison. The herd was completely shocked.
They all turned around, some running to the sides, some to the back. The royal hand on the ox cart could not be pulled, and the occupants of the cart fell one after another, and from time to time the ox cart overturned. The ghost cries and the wolf howls, and the wolf smoke is in the air. The ox cart running backwards arrived in a flash for hundreds of meters, Pan Cheng stole the chickens and rice, and his front was in a hurry, but was washed away by the ox cart.
Listening to the sound of three cannons, on the bank of the small river in the west, hundreds of Haidong cavalry, the ambush army rose up.
Each of them lit a torch and rushed to Pan Cheng's right flank, avoiding the enemy's cavalry, making a sharp turn against the infantry position and throwing the torch into it. Gathered like clouds, scattered like birds. After the torches, there are rockets; After the rockets, there were rain of arrows. Scattered like birds, gathered like clouds, a rain of arrows passed, they gathered again in one place, and fiercely inserted Pan Cheng's flank.
Guan Shirong got off the watchtower, personally led the Chinese army, and launched a counteroffensive.
On the hill on the left, more than 100 Haidong soldiers also raised banners, shouted and rushed down to outflank.
Pan Cheng's front began to break up, and the strong men dropped their weapons and ran around. The old soldiers in the back killed many strong men who fled, but the bullets could not be suppressed, and the positions were impacted, and they gradually became chaotic.
Pan Cheng screamed, almost spitting out a mouthful of blood. With a bang, he unsheathed his short sword, first pushed the generals on the side of the circumference, and hurried forward to retract the formation. His old pawn hasn't moved yet, as long as the formation in front of him is stable, it's not that he doesn't have the strength to fight. Then, he pulled his cloak, looked left and right, and shouted, "Pan Xian'er! What about Pan Xianji? Where is this thief bird? β
Pan Xianer is his staff. The strategy of the oxcart formation was proposed by him. It was also his proposal to set fire to repel the raiding forces in Haidong. He has been following Pan Cheng's left and right, and he secretly ran away at some point, and he couldn't find anyone.
One of the soldiers pointed forward: "It seems to be there!" β
Pan Cheng looked at it fixedly, and fainted out of breath.
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Barth led dozens of people, followed the ladder, and will go up to the city.
He opened his leopard's eyes, his voice was like a gong, and he shouted: "Liaoxi Balsi is here ,......"
Before the words fell, a large barrel of boiling oil was poured on the city. His screams suddenly turned into screams, he wore three layers of heavy armor, which could not protect his face, and the connection between his armor and the hood, after all, there was a gap, boiling oil poured in, and he was burned beyond recognition, and his skin was open.
He was very strong, and under the heavy blow, he gritted his teeth and rushed up.
The two Haidong soldiers raised their forks, aimed them at his neck, and pushed them hard. In his usual state, even if he can't dodge, he can snatch the fork. Pity his eyes were also oiled, his vision was blurred, he could not see anything, and he fell down. He fell from the top of the city, and fell to the ground, and fell into a puddle of flesh.
He was big, and in the process of falling, he collided with many soldiers below, and fell to his death in the city one after another.
Barrels of boiling oil were served from under the walls of the city along the road. Li Ye's killer feature is this thing. He collected all the oil in the city, boiled it, and used it when the Yuan army's offensive was weak. The boiling oil may not be enough to burn all the Yuan troops to death, but the tragic situation of the Yuan army being burned is enough to shake the military heart of the Yuan army. After a long battle, the army's heart moved, and the attack was bound to collapse.
Many of the Yuan troops who went up to the city were also burned and fell to the ground, screaming incessantly.
Li Ye had already ordered him to let him howl miserably and not kill him. The bamboo poles on the head of the city were very firmly tied, although the battle was fierce, there were still many unbroken, rows of human heads hung high, fluttering with the wind, as if watching coldly, and the scalded pawns rolled and screamed. Above and below the city, there were countless dead bodies everywhere. The murderous aura is as fierce as hell, which makes people shudder.
The Yuan army couldn't support it, and no longer cared about Shijiabao's warlords, lost their armor, dragged their guns and flags, and was defeated and defeated. Some of the remaining cities are too late to retreat, and they have no fighting spirit. The defenders seemed to chop melons and vegetables, and killed them all in three or two.
Several Yuan soldiers carried the Hu bed of Shijiabao and withdrew with the army in a hurry. Shi Jiabao twisted his head, turned his eyes to the city, and was speechless for a long time.
He sighed and said, "With my defeat, I became the name of the erector." β
This battle, with his reputation of Liaoxi Shuangbi, achieved Li Ye's reputation as an iron wall.