Chapter 260: The Barbarian Warriors of the Bau Clan

While the cavalry continued to attack the array of the Waranga Army, the 17,000-strong army of the Taiping Army also killed them in two ways.

It was not Chen Wu's Taiping Battalion, or other Taiping Army troops, that rushed to the front, but the former Songjiang First Garrison Brigade that surrendered!

Chen Wu's arrangement was obviously intentional.

In terms of strength, this veteran garrison brigade in Songjiang has the standard combat power of the second-line army of the empire, which is no less than the elite of Chen Wu's Taiping battalion. In terms of morale and fighting spirit, this is fighting against the Omanis, and there is no need to worry about it. Coupled with some considerations that are inconvenient to put on the table, there is such a troop arrangement.

Amid shouts of killing, the soldiers of the four wings bypassed the flanks of the cavalry units, preparing to outflank the two flanks of the Valanga division.

The hastily organized defensive line of Kursha was only 2,000 men, and it was difficult to spread out in the camp. If it is attacked by the Taiping army from both flanks, it will inevitably fall into chaos, and even collapse on the whole line. In a hurry, he hurriedly ordered the other units that had hastily assembled to stop the soldiers of the 1st Garrison Brigade.

After two days of rapid marching, the Taiping soldiers were certainly inferior to the Omanis. But the Valanga division was not having a good time, having returned from the battle of Tianlong City, and many of the wounded had not yet scarred. In this way, the two groups of soldiers collided together, and their strength was basically half a catty.

However, the other army of the Taiping Army completely broke this deadlock.

In addition to the 1st Garrison Brigade that assisted the cavalry attack head-on, the main force of Chen Wu's Taiping Battalion Volunteer Battalion directly copied the back of the camp of the Waranga Division, intercepting the back road of the Omani camp and blocking their contact with the defenders on Guqingguan Mountain. Without waiting for the panicked Valanga division to counterattack, the elite of the Taiping battalion immediately changed their formation, and slaughtered the passage left for the mountain from behind the camp to go up the mountain.

In an instant, the situation of the front and back attacks was formed!

If it was only a frontal attack, after paying a certain price, the Valanga division could still stabilize the shape and even slowly counterattack. But the 6,000 elite of the Taiping army slaughtered from behind them, cutting off the retreat of the Waranga division, which inevitably shook the morale of these Omanis soldiers.

"Quick, send a signal to ask the mountain defenders to pick up!"

The commander of the division, Kulsha, was also a well-known senior general in the Omani army, and quickly made a correct judgment of the situation. While trying his best to organize the soldiers and divide into two fronts to fight against the sudden attack of the Taiping army, he ordered someone to send a signal for help, asking the brigade guarding Gu Qingguan to take the initiative on the mountain.

If these 4,000 men had responded, crushed the enemy from behind the Volunteer Battalion, and helped the Waranga Division break out of the encirclement and retreat to the top of Pingling Mountain together, the situation might have been reversed.

It is only a day's distance from the front line of Tianlong City, and once the news of the change comes out, the army will march in a hurry, and at the latest tomorrow His Majesty Saladin will be able to send reinforcements reads();.

The signal soldiers in the camp then began to change their flags repeatedly, and conveyed a message to the defenders of Gu Qingguan through the pre-set command flag language. Since Pingling Mountain is not high, a lookout with good eyesight can see clearly.

"Do you want to be rescued?"

Receiving a request from the Valanga division at the foot of the mountain, the defenders of Guqingguan wavered.

In fact, the Omanis on the top of the hill could see the situation clearly without the signal from the Waranga Division: the Waranga Division was caught up in a surprise attack by the Taiping cavalry in an unguarded situation, and then was cut off from the retreat up the mountain by a large number of infantry troops that suddenly appeared, and then were flanked from front to back. If Kursha had ordered his men to retreat into the mountains as soon as he noticed the enemy's cavalry approaching, there might have been a slight chance, but for now......

"Still saved!"

After hesitating for a moment, Ye Fanqing, the general of Gu Qingguan's defenders, gritted his teeth and made a decision.

The relationship between the Guqingguan defenders and the Valanga division at the foot of the mountain is like a cold lip and tooth. If the Valanga division is allowed to be wiped out, the imperial army will inevitably try to attack the mountain and destroy the granary of Guqingguan. With 4,000 people on the top of the mountain, relying on the terrain to defend it, it is difficult to hold an enemy at least four times their size - maybe it can be delayed for a while, but if the enemy does not hesitate to be completely wiped out by the Omani reinforcement army, it is still possible to forcibly break through the ancient Qingguan and completely burn the grain and grass of the army!

This is unacceptable to the Omanis.

However, Chen Wu had long been prepared for the actions of the defenders of the ancient Qingguan on the mountain. The 4,000 recruits of the Second Garrison Brigade reorganized in Dengzhou were prepared for them. In terms of training, the Dengzhou government has basically completed, and the Taiping army has taken over the period of strict training, and the weapons and armor are also complete. Although it was not the opponent of the Omani soldiers guarding Gu Qingguan, it was no problem to block them for half a day.

Seeing that the Taiping army in the mountain quickly made the correct move and did not give any opportunity to take advantage of it, Ye Fanqing hesitated again.

Knowing that the enemy is on guard, do you still want a mountain?

Instead of making this irrational decision, it is better to simply stick to the belief and use the terrain on the mountain to stick to it to the end. In that case, the army of Tianlong City's reinforcements might be able to scare these imperial people back......

For a while, Ye Fanqing couldn't think of a better way.

The defenders of the mountain, who had already begun to assemble, stopped at the last moment, abandoning their friendly forces in the mountain.

Although this decision is very difficult, and it will inevitably bear huge doubts and accusations afterwards, it is not Ye Fanqing's character to do it knowing that it cannot be done. With a heavy responsibility, he can only choose the most beneficial solution for the situation.

Seeing that the defenders of Gu Qingguan had been unable to reach the mountain for a long time, the surrounded Kursha understood the other party's decision. I could only smile bitterly, sighed, and personally led a group of senior officers to the front line. Seeing the situation, he was unwilling to surrender, and there was no other way to go, so he could only choose to die and die for his country.

"Didn't the defenders on the hill move?"

Chen Wu has been paying attention to the movements of Gu Qingguan, and he was somewhat disappointed when he saw this. However, he had already made preparations for both, no matter whether the garrison brigade in the Gu Qingguan came or not, there was a way to deal with it.

Eyes, let's first put the main forces on the total annihilation of the Valanga Division.

The duty of the Waranga Division in the Kingdom of Oman is to guard the security near the royal capital, which is a bit like a city guard in nature, but its strength and status are very inferior, and it can only be regarded as a good second-line force. If it was in its heyday, the Taiping army that rushed to eat him would really have to make a lot of effort reads();. But this army of the eye, after all, has participated in the brutal Tianlong siege for nearly a month.

The number of dead and wounded is about 5,000 people, which is enough to explain the tragic situation of this army.

Although they were able to resist the front and rear attacks of the Taiping cavalry and infantry troops, the combat effectiveness of the Waranga division was rapidly weakening as time went on and more and more sacrifices. During this period, Chen Wu's expanded infantry battalion was also put into battle.

Compared to when the Taiping Army was first founded, the current infantry battalion is much stronger.

Especially after absorbing the surrendered army from Dengzhou and accepting a group of people recruited by Gao Yueli from the hometown of the Gaochang tribe, the number of infantry and bow battalions of the Taiping army has exceeded 600 people. If you count the group of foot archers who are still training in Dengzhou Yuyang, the total number is close to one thousand!

Of course, the Omanis also had a large number of archers, but almost all of them were placed in the city of Tianlong. A division like Valanga, which had been heavily wounded and had withdrawn to rest, naturally could not have had too many archers. The only brigade was suppressed by the infantry archers of the Taiping army in a short time. Although the newly recruited Gaochang archers lacked coordination and discipline, in terms of individual archery, they were extremely talented and no less than any surrendered Dengzhou official archers.

Although the two sides had been brought together and the threat of the concessionary archers had been greatly reduced, the soldiers of the Valanga Division were still dying of blood loss at an accelerated rate, with sufficient numbers and precise support.

In the array of the Taiping Army, not only the Gaochang people, but also a group of ethnic minorities in Guang'an County are also majestic.

They are the warriors of the Bai Miao and the Bawu tribes!

Despite their small numbers and scattered for balancing reasons, each of these carefully selected barbarian warriors was the most elite soldier. Taking the heavy weapons and armor specially made for them by the Taiping army, the ordinary three or five Omanis were no match at all, and even some Omani officers were easily defeated by the brutal fighting style of these warriors.

What is even more terrifying is the disregard for life and the thirst for blood of these barbarians. After being splashed at the corners of their mouths by the flying flesh, the barbarian warriors of the Bau tribe even showed a cruel and intoxicated smile as they stuck out their tongues to dry the blood, like demons.

Not to mention the Omanis as enemies, even the Taiping army, which is a friendly army, has many difficult to accept.

In the face of such a blow, the last array of the Valanga division was collapsing little by little.

Chen Wu, who was watching the battle in the Chinese army, was shocked for the first time after these Bau people joined the Taiping Army, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw them fighting on the battlefield head-on. It's no wonder that both the players before the crossing and the empire after the crossing are pulling and fighting against these ethnic minorities. Before the world evolved to the age of hot weapons, such barbarian warriors were really terrifying.

Thankfully, their population has never been small.

Even if there is the largest number of Bai Miao people, according to players, it is estimated that there will not be more than 100,000.

Otherwise, if they were to organize a force of tens of thousands of people casually, I was afraid that the overlord of the Eastern Continent would not be a Qianyuan person.

"Enough, I don't want to die!"

Seeing their companions being killed by the Taiping army one by one, some timid Omani soldiers recalled the meat grinding battle in Tianlong City. The brutality of the two battles coincided to break his psychological defenses, and he couldn't help but throw his weapons and turned around and fled to the camp of the Valanga Division. Although the escaped soldier was immediately killed by the Warlords, it set off a chain reaction.

A large number of Varanga soldiers, who have been supported to the limit, throw their weapons and flee or surrender on the spot!