Chapter 398: The Great War of the Six Kingdoms (4)
"Expel all enemies in the city!"
Chu Tian came out of the Lord's Mansion and didn't get any benefits, but he took the initiative in his own hands. The Mughal Empire army that invaded the inner city saw that the main city had changed hands, and their own troops outside the city were scattered, and their morale dropped significantly.
Cao Cao led thousands of heavy cavalry to hunt down the soldiers of the Mughal Empire in the city, personally slaying several enemy troops. Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun blocked the gap, and the enemies in the city could not escape from this gate.
Some Indus farmers, slaves, and homeless people who were not loyal to the lord were caught in the urn and had to surrender to the Han army. Nobles of higher status, such as feudal knights, Rajput cavalry, Sikh cavalry, and horseatha alliance cavalry, escaped through another city gate.
The army of the Mughal Empire outside the city has collapsed, and the Han army's iron cavalry has cut through the army of the Mughal Empire three times in succession outside the city, and more than 100,000 Mughal soldiers have been killed!
The army of war elephants, which the lords of the Mughal Empire were proud of, was completely useless in the chaotic battlefield, and the frightened war elephants trampled on their own people.
"Retreat in batches!"
The princes of the Mughal Empire saw that the large army that invaded the city was expelled, and knew that the capture of the main city had failed, and the Han army's infantry and cavalry were flanked, and the Mughal Empire was defeated, so they could only try to keep part of the soldiers and horses.
Shivaji, the legendary Mughal hero, personally went to the battlefield to pacify the war elephants in an attempt to keep the war elephant troops.
The million-strong army, as long as most of them escape, is not a serious injury. Even if the weapons of the Han army were all curled, they might not be able to stop the fleeing Mughal Empire army.
"Kill their main force as much as you can!"
Now that he has offended the Mughal Empire, he did his best to kill and injure the Mughal Empire's army, crush its main force, and make them powerless to fight back!
The armies of the two sides were tug-of-war, and the Han army suffered many casualties in the crowd tactics of the Mughal Empire, even the generals such as Lu Bu, Guan Yu, and Shi Wansui were wounded.
At least 10,000 Mughal soldiers died at the hands of 100 fierce generals, and some fierce soldiers were swallowed by the sea of people of the Mughal Empire and died in the battle.
Ants bite elephants to death, and if they fall off their horses, they will be killed by locust-like Mughal soldiers.
The armies of the two civilizations fought fiercely, with more than 100,000 or 200,000 casualties on both sides, and a large number of casualties among the generals!
The army of the Mughal Empire collapsed, and wanted to flee and preserve its strength, so the Han army pursued and killed to maximize the results of the war.
Chutian came out to recruit the cannon fodder infantry of the Mughal Empire as consumables for future wars.
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The Han army is still fighting with the army of the Mughal Empire in the main city, and on the Gobi, the Persian Empire and the Western Route Army of the Han Empire have been at war!
The three-eyed fire bolt on the iron rider of Guanning fired a volley, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the Parthian heavy cavalry turned on their backs. Two heavy cavalry collided, spears like a forest!
The spear pierced through the iron armor of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the Parthian heavy cavalry took out the spare mace and hammered the Guanning Iron Cavalry, colliding with the Three-Eyed Fire Gun of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the Three-Eyed Fire Gun was transformed in an instant!
The heavy cavalry on both sides used sharp spears and heavy blunt weapons to fight, and the sound of iron pieces and weapons was endless!
Murong Ba's horse lance pierced the armor of an immortal heavy cavalry, and his mouth was numb. If you want to kill a high-level heavy cavalry, even a military general like Murong Ba with a force of more than 90 is laborious.
Tens of thousands of high-ranking heavy cavalry charged back and forth twice, and separated again, with more than 2,000 cavalry casualties on both sides.
Mingguan saw that there were many casualties among the high-level heavy cavalry such as the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Longcheng Iron Cavalry, and his heart was dripping blood. The high-level heavy cavalry was indeed terrible when it launched a surprise attack, but the cost behind it was extremely high, and even if Mingguan occupied the horse-producing land and the Liaodong iron mine, it would not be able to support many high-level heavy cavalry.
The Roman legions were also reluctant to be assaulted by the Parthian heavy cavalry of the Persian Empire, which shows the terrible Parthian heavy cavalry. The cavalry on both sides is representative of their respective civilizations.
The advantage of the Han army on the Western Route was infantry. Half of the infantry and half of the cavalry of the Han army on the western route. When the cavalry of the Persian Empire attacked urgently, the Han cavalry retreated near the infantry phalanx, relying on powerful infantry crossbows, military vehicles, bed crossbows and other weapons to kill and injure a large number of Persian cavalry, forcing the Persian cavalry to retreat.
Shen Xuan Sun Bin assisted Lian Po in arranging the formation, setting up a phalanx, thin and thick, with both offense and defense.
Equip Jizhou strong crossbows with Qi technical strikes, join forces with other crossbowmen, and shoot Persian cavalry in a volley!
The troop chariot blocked the impact of the Persian cavalry, and the ten thousand crossbows were fired in unison, and the Persian cavalry was shot by the infantry crossbow before they entered the range of cavalry shooting, and even the men and horses fell to the ground with a bang!
The unwilling Persian army wrapped its infantry and archers and pressed again, and the two sides used military chariots as a battle line to fight, and infantry and cavalry continued to die, and corpses were everywhere. The bloody battle between the two sides lasted four hours, with tens of thousands of casualties, and the Persian army could not make a breakthrough and withdrew like a tidal wave.
The Persian cavalry was helpless for a while in the face of an impregnable phalanx of infantry and chariots. If it was just a mixed phalanx of infantry and chariots, the Han army still had a large number of elite cavalry to cooperate, and the cavalry-based Persian Empire army could not gnaw the Han army with multiple arms.
"The Persians should be starting to get anxious. Their goal is to crush us and then fight for the main city, but we are on the defensive, and they don't get the advantage. If the Central Route Army and the Eastern Route Army successfully defeated the Mughal Empire army, they would already be able to take the main city. ”
Seeing that the already gloomy sky was even darker, Huma knew that night was coming, and that the great battle would be even more dangerous!
Chu Tian left a small group of Iron Eagle scouts in the Western Route Army.
The role of the war eagle has been noticed by Sun Bin, and the other princes have repeatedly seen the war eagle following Chu Tian's army, and roughly guessed the role of the war eagle, so the war eagle has no value to hide.
A warhawk flew in from the direction of the main city and landed on the arm of the Iron Eagle Scout, who quickly took down the note.
"The main city has been won, the army of the Mughal Empire has been defeated, please try to lead your troops to converge!"
The Iron Eagle scout quickly informed the five princes of the Western Route Army, and the five princes finally breathed a sigh of relief. They did not pay in vain.
Ming Guan's face did not soften: "The elite of the Persian Empire are almost all cavalry, and it is still difficult for us to leave." ”
Ming Guan's words made the other four princes' hearts tighten.
The other side is a mighty Persian cavalry, and the formation of military vehicles and infantry can block them, but if the Han army pulls out the camp, it will give the Persian army a chance.
Infantry on the march will be easily routed by cavalry.
"Night is approaching, and the danger of marching at night is extremely high, so it is better to camp temporarily, recuperate your spirits, and march again tomorrow."
"Yes."
After a brief discussion, the five princes of the Western Route Army decided that it was too risky to march at night, and that they could only use their chariots to hold on, confront the Persian army, and march again tomorrow.
Since the main city has been captured by the Western Route Army and the Central Route Army, it should not be a big problem for the two armies to stick to the main city.
In the military camp of the Persian Empire, the faces of the nobles of the Persian Empire were a little tired.
They inflicted a lot of casualties on the cavalry of the Han army on the western route, and many Han generals were killed as a result, but they were unable to take the mixed phalanx of the Han army's Sun Bin and Lian Po.
In the Battle of Mobei, Wei Qing also used military vehicles and infantry to gain a firm foothold, attracting the attention of the Hun cavalry.
Choi Jae-sun, the lord of Goryeo, was in the military camp of the Persian Empire at this time, and he was a little disappointed in the Persian Empire. The ancient civilization of the Persian Empire could not be destroyed even by the five Han princes.
Choi Jae-sun advised: "You can assemble all the camels and war elephants, use them to storm the camp of the Western Route Army, and then use the 'undead army' and tens of thousands of foot soldiers as the vanguard, and the heavy cavalry behind, and break through the camp of the Han army!" ”
When they heard that the undead army was to be used, the Persian princes present all looked different.
Put all the elite units into battle, and the battle ended with at least half of the Persian Empire lost.
Ardashir's eyes flickered, and he hesitated to join the undead army.
He thought that with a large number of ironclad cavalry, he could defeat the Han army of less than 200,000 people, but he did not expect that the two sides would fight fiercely for a day and kill and wound 30,000 or 40,000 Han troops, but they could not defeat the Western Route Army.
The Persian Empire also paid a considerable number of casualties, and the Persian Empire, which was on the offensive, even lost an extra 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry.
"Throw in the undead army, what will I use to fight the main city?"
Ardashir vetoed Choi's proposal. As the most famous heavy infantry of the Persian Empire, Ardashir believed that if he invested the undead army, he might be able to break the mixed phalanx of the Han army, but the Persian Empire would still have to capture the main city. There is no undead army, and with this group of cavalry, they can only look at the majestic city walls and sigh.
Cui Zaishan retreated and begged: "Maybe you don't need an undead army, you can break it by using fire camels and Persian war elephants." ”
Ardashir consulted with several other Persian nobles in a low voice, and finally said, "If they still set up a phalanx of chariots tomorrow, they will do what you suggest, but the probability of our success is very small, because there are scouts who know that the area around the main city is full of Mughal routs. The Mughal Empire has been defeated. ”
"Even a great civilization of the size of the Mughal Empire has been defeated?"
Choi Jae-sun was shaken in his heart, and the horror of the Han army was far beyond his imagination.
It was only half of the Han princes in this national war who attacked the Mughal Empire, and they actually penetrated the million-strong army of the Mughal Empire.
In view of the strength of the Han army, Choi Jae-sun did not urge Ardashir to storm the Han army, otherwise the Persian Empire would also be completely annihilated.
Choi Jae-sun's Goryeo Army, when the Persian Empire was fighting with the Han army, secretly attacked the lone Han cavalry, and accumulated a little military merit.
All civilizations have their own agendas.
The princes of the Mughal Empire collapsed, and the Han infantry slaughtered the siege towers where the thirty-six princes commanded the battlefield, and the thirty-six princes fled.
One of the princes of the Mughal Empire in India was shot and killed by the fierce general Li Guangyu in the chaos, and one of the princes accidentally tripped and fell while retreating, and was trampled to death by the hooves of his own cavalry.
In the chaotic battlefield, anything could happen, and the remaining thirty-four princes fled the battlefield under the protection of their own soldiers, gathering the remnants of the defeated army.
The battlefield of more than a million soldiers and horses was in chaos, and the soldiers and horses fled in all directions, making it difficult to distinguish each other as the sky grew dark.
The main city has been obtained, and in order to avoid killing and injuring friendly troops in the chaos, Lao Qin ordered their respective troops to withdraw to the main city.
The main city has a twelve-meter-high wall. Although the walls were damaged by the Mughal Empire's onslaught at all costs, and the gates were reduced to broken wood, they were able to strengthen the defenders' defenses.
The Han armies reluctantly returned to the city, and if it weren't for the darkness of the battlefield at night, they would have continued to pursue the rout of the Mughal Empire.
In order to storm the main city, the Mughal Empire suffered 200,000 casualties, and was attacked by the Han army's fierce assault, with 200,000 dead and wounded, and tens of thousands of casualties trampled on each other, and the number was already less than 1 million.
Hundreds of thousands of armies were scattered, and it took a lot of time for the lords of the Mughal Empire in India to gather all their soldiers.
"We have 100,000 dead and wounded, and 100,000 Mughal soldiers have been taken prisoner, mostly infantry used as cannon fodder. It's not that I can't take more prisoners, but I really don't have the stamina. ”
Lao Qin scooped water with a wooden spoon and poured it into his stomach vigorously, his throat was like being burned by a red-hot soldering iron because of the long roar and ordering, and he was hoarse and uncomfortable.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
Old Qin seemed to be choked, coughed violently, and simply sat on the ground, gasping for breath.
As a guard, Yang Dayan supported Lao Qin: "Lord." ”
"I ...... I'm fine, I'm just running out of energy. ”
At the age of more than fifty years old, Lao Qin followed the heavy cavalry charge, and the weight of the armor alone made him uncomfortable.
The surviving generals were all out of strength, and they fought from noon until late at night, and even the iron men could not withstand such a high-intensity battle.
Chu Tian held the unconscious Joan of Arc, placed her in a house, and ordered the women's army to take care of her.
After all, Joan of Arc saved half his life.
Chu Tian went to Lao Qin to discuss the defense of the main city.
The current main city is not safe, except for the bare city walls, all the towers, arrow towers, and city gates have been demolished by the Mughal Empire's crowd tactics.
The main city had four gates, and a group of generals needed to take turns defending it.
All generals and legions need time to regain their strength, otherwise the Mughal Empire will make a comeback.
The Mughal Empire is a hundred-legged centipede, although it is not dead.
Ten princes, two of each of which were responsible for guarding one city gate, and two of whom were responsible for arranging for troops to patrol the city and dispose of corpses.
The magnitude of this great battle is unimaginable, and the number of troops killed here is approaching a million!
The Han army died 100,000, the NPC defenders died, and the Mughal Empire died 560,000!
"After this battle, the Mughal Empire has been affected not only by the national war, but even by the strength of the main world."
Chutian calculated the losses of the Mughal Empire and knew that the losses of the Mughal Empire had shaken the country's foundation.
According to the rules for the participation of princes with a population of one million in national wars, the more princes of the Mughal Empire have, the more troops they can bring.
But in fact, because the population base is almost the same, the strength of the Mughal Empire and the Han Empire is also about the same. The Mughal Empire lost five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses in World War I, some of which were low-level soldiers recruited during the national war, but a considerable number of them were high-level soldiers from within the Mughal Empire!
Therefore, Chu Tian thought that the return of the princes of the Mughal Empire to the main world was also a great injury, not to mention that the Mughal had killed many military generals.
Old Qin said: "It's good to let them learn a lesson, and conquer them in the future, they won't dare to let their farts go." ”