Chapter 362: One More Day

The north and south gates of Chagante Haocheng were wide open, and a group of tribal cavalry poured out of the city, assembled on the grass, densely packed with a large area, steel knives like snow, spears like forests, banners were displayed, and the military appearance was quite prosperous.

The Jin army's attack was imminent, but Lu Hongniang did not order the team to stop preparing for battle, but ordered the team to continue to retreat to the camp, and the soldiers of the first regiment marched in several dense defensive phalanxes.

Huang Taiji issued an order to attack, and the division feinted to attack the large camp of the Phoenix Legion in order to contain the Ming army in the battalion, and the main force was inserted in the grass between the large battalion and the first regiment, negatively blocking the retreat of the first regiment and the reinforcements of the Ming army in the large battalion, and the other main force launched a round attack on the retreating first regiment from the right flank and rear, and the battle officially began.

"I don't know what happened to Hongshuai's side?"

In the camp, Du Yunfeng stood on the high platform, looking into the north with a monotube, but the distance was too far, all he saw was dense tribal cavalry, and the attacking Jin soldiers did not invest much, and they quickly retreated immediately after being greeted by the soldiers with a round of guns, making it clear that it was a feint attack, and the main thing was containment, and he was not allowed to send troops to reinforce the first regiment.

"Listening to the gunshots, the fight is very intense, I don't know if the first regiment can hold on, whether the ammunition carried is enough to replenish the ......" Dou Dayong on the side sighed, knowing that what he said was nonsense, if the first regiment was tight, it would set off a wolf smoke signal for help, but he still couldn't help but worry in his heart, Lu Hongniang is not only the commander of the Phoenix Legion, but also the favorite concubine of the Son of Heaven.

"Wait patiently......" Du Yunfeng smiled bitterly, why not worry in his heart, if there is a real accident, it will be fatal, there must be no accident, I don't know if the Hong Inspector who is far behind has received the wolf smoke signal?

At this time, Hong Chengchou had just received the news from the scouts that the Phoenix Legion had set off a wolf smoke signal, and he immediately ordered the whole army to gather, in addition to leaving two regiments to guard the camp and the prismatic castle, and two regiments to guard the second prismatic castle under construction, he personally led the army to Chagantehao City for reinforcements.

As soon as the army moved, it was immediately discovered by the scouts of the Jin army, and Amin sent people to report to the emperor Taiji, while gathering a team to block Hong Chengchou's main force, and the two sides soon started a battle in ping-pong.

Although Amin's subordinates were brave and fearless, one after another, but in the face of the sharp musket bombardment of the Ming army, as well as the indiscriminate bombardment of hundreds of Franc machine guns, the losses were extremely heavy, and in the face of Hong Chengchou's strong advance, he could only command the troops to retreat while fighting, desperately blocking the speed of Hong Chengchou's main force to advance.

Under the city of Chagantehao, the battle of the first regiment besieged by the Jin army reached a white-hot state, the tribal warriors braved the rain of bullets and bullets to attack frantically, and pieces of warriors and war horses fell on the way to charge, but no one flinched, one after another, once rushed to the phalanx of the first regiment, but was blocked by the white pole soldiers with a spear array, and then was killed by a platoon of guns, blown away by the thunder, and the dead and wounded.

The sound of guns and cannons rumbled, the roar of killing shook the sky, the grass was full of human corpses and horse corpses, and countless wounded soldiers who were struggling and howling, the painful neighing of war horses, abandoned weapons and equipment, and blood stained the grass red.

Under the calm command of Lu Hongniang, the officers and men of the first regiment lined up in a dense defensive phalanx, slowly retreating while fighting, and the three Franc machine guns were dragged behind the rear car, and they were not unloaded and bombarded, which made more than a dozen gunners red-eyed and sad and helpless, this thing was too heavy, and it was troublesome to load and unload, which affected the speed of the whole regiment's retreat, and it would not be used until the critical time.

One side wants to retreat, one side desperately blocks, the soldiers on both sides are brave and tenacious, the battle is very fierce, and there are casualties among each other, but the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion equipped with the rifle occupy the advantage of long-range strikes, only more than 100 soldiers were shot by stray arrows, and the casualties are negligible.

The cheek muscles of the Huang Taiji, Baylor, and the patriarchs who supervised the battle before the battle were twitching, and their hearts were dripping blood, which was their most courageous young warriors, the support and hope of the tribe, but they fell like this, the power of the Ming army's muskets was too terrifying, and they also wanted to have excellent muskets and artillery, but the eight emperors were finished, the Ming army sealed the border, strictly investigated, and severely punished, no one dared to sell iron ore, gunpowder, grain and other important military materials to them, and they had a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, leather and other things and could not buy the materials they wanted to buy. can only curse Chongzhen, that bastard, faint monarch is too vicious.

After the first regiment retreated nearly half of the way, Lu Hongniang ordered the whole regiment to stop, and ordered the artillery to unload the only three Franco machine guns, turn the muzzle, and bombard the Jin cavalry that was charging frantically in front of them.

"Hey, why don't you leave?" Huang Taiji, who was supervising the battle in front of the battle, couldn't help frowning when he saw the first regiment stop retreating, what is the situation?

"Great Khan, may it be that our charge at any cost has put too much pressure on the Ming army, forcing them to stop and use the Franc cannon to save their lives?" The confidant general with a simple view laughed with a triumphant expression.

Huang Taiji frowned and pondered for a while, and ordered all tribes to increase the intensity of the attack, he didn't know why Lu Hongniang asked the troops to stop retreating, but he didn't rule out the possibility that the general under his command said that the increase in attack was just a test to see what the situation would make another decision.

In the camp of the Phoenix Legion, Du Yunfeng, Dou Dayong and others were still standing on the high platform, looking north with a monocular, their faces full of worry.

"Why don't I take the troops out for a walk?" Dou Dayong said.

"Okay, be careful." Du Yunfeng nodded in agreement, he was too worried about the safety of Lu Hongniang and the first regiment, and he really had no choice but to let Dou Dayong lead the third regiment out of the camp, which was not only to lure the enemy into battle, but also to relieve some of the pressure on the first regiment.

After yesterday's fierce battle, the soldiers of the three regiments shot and killed many golden soldiers, earned a lot of military merits, and paid for the sweetness.

Under Dou Dayong's order, the officers and men of the three regiments were greatly invigorated, and under the command of the officers, they poured out of the camp gate in an orderly manner, lined up a defensive formation on the flat ground, and then advanced to the north.

Several Jin soldiers hurriedly attacked and intercepted, desperately blocking the rendezvous of the three regiments and Lu Hongniang's regiment, the sound of ping-pong gunfire and rumbling war drums, the earth-shattering roar of killing, the terrible screams, and the painful neighing of the war horses were intertwined, and the corpses everywhere, dyed red grass, constituted a tragic battle picture.

The Jin troops of all walks of life bravely charged, one after the other, but they could not break through the dense rain of bullets, and fell in pieces on the way of the charge, and the arrows they shot were sparsely few, and the damage to the soldiers of the first and third regiments was negligible.

Huang Taiji and the others were in pain when they saw it, but they were unwilling, so they could only hold on, but fortunately, this heart-wrenching pain did not last long, and a scout hurriedly came to report, and Amin Belle set off a wolf smoke.

Huang Taiji and the others frowned, Amin was responsible for leading a main force to monitor and intercept Hong Chengchou's main force to reinforce Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion, and setting off a wolf smoke meant that Hong Chengchou's main army was dispatched, which also showed that the wolf smoke signal set off in the barracks of the Phoenix Legion the day before yesterday had been successfully transmitted to Hong Chengchou, which was completely correct as he guessed before.

No matter how rushed Hong Chengchou's main army is, it will take at least fifteen days to travel, and he still has a lot of time, but he is worried that Amin will do whatever it takes to intercept Hong Chengchou's main army, which will be troublesome.

Well, let's make a decision based on today's battle situation.