Chapter 358: The Decisive Battle
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, military discipline was corrupted, and it was not easy to manufacture chariots, and the price was very high. So, the chariots began to disappear from the battlefield, and eventually the Manchus took over the world. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that they made a lot of money, so many chariots, nearly 300 chariots really wouldn't have been built.
"These bastards, I'm going to exterminate them." Summer said hatefully.
"Ahem, that's too much. As long as they are willing to surrender, we can still accept those among them who do not know the truth and have not been stained with the blood of our Northwest Army. Gao Tian glanced at the trembling tribal general, and said with a dry cough.
These people are still in favor of acceptance and forced to surrender in the summer.
Summer also knew that he had said the wrong thing, he glanced at the few generals who wanted to disappear, snorted coldly, and did not speak.
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Under the city of Kakuyasa, more than 100,000 troops of the Northwest Army camped under the fearful, restless, and anxious gaze of the Hu people, stretching for dozens of miles, and the momentum shook the sky.
"This is the so-called Hu Clan Dragon Court - Kakuyasa City, I don't think it's anything remarkable, it's not much different from ordinary prefecture cities, much worse than Zhizhou City, and there is no danger to defend, and I don't know what these Hu barbarians are thinking." One of the generals looked at the city of Kakuyasa and said disdainfully.
Next to him, there were also a group of generals of the Northwest Army checking the enemy's situation. Among them, Summer and Gaotian were surrounded by these generals of the Northwest Army.
At that moment, the horn sounded in the city of Kakuyasa. A moment later, the gates of the city were opened, and countless Hu soldiers swarmed out, half of them infantry and half of them. Although it is very far away, Hu Bing shouted long live, and his anger rushed straight to the clouds, but he had a bit of spirit, but some tragic meaning was full of it.
It seems that the high-level Hu people are not really lacking in heart, but they can no longer withstand consumption. At the same time, they did not expect the appearance of the chariot, which completely crushed their last reliance and confidence.
As battalion after battalion of Hu soldiers poured out of the city, Gao Tian, in the summer, Wang Qing and other generals of the Northwest Army did not have the slightest emotion, but looked indifferently at the Hu soldiers who surged out, as if they were looking at the dead.
After years of Gao Tian's blows and three years of continuous bloodletting, the Hu people have been weakened a lot, and now there are only 150,000 strong people who have rushed out of the city, and nearly 100,000 of them are temporarily converted herdsmen.
Gao Tian and they couldn't help but sneer in their hearts when they saw that most of the troops in this army only had sheepskins and other leather clothes to protect them, and there were no armor clothes.
Since the corruption case that shocked the northwest three years ago was solved, the northwest has been unprecedentedly strict in its inquiries about border gates. Any caravan that dared to trade with the Hu people, or even go to the border, would be killed. It is precisely because of the three-year strict ban that no caravan can enter the Hohe grassland, which makes the Hu people extremely short of supplies.
The most serious of these are salt and iron.
Everyone knows the effect of salt, if you don't eat salt, you will have no strength, and iron tools are also the key to the Hu people. It is precisely because of this that the salt of the Hu people has begun to run out, and the iron tools are far from sufficient. Even if the Great Khan of the Hu nationality ordered the seizure of iron pots and other iron tools of the herdsmen, it could not be completely replaced, and even the weapons began to be missing. I believe that even if Gao Tian doesn't fight, the Hu clan will have to start looting again.
It's a pity that the situation in the Central Plains seems to have changed, and Gao Tian had to start solving the problem of the rear in advance and completely build a solid logistics base.
Although the Northwest Army was in a hurry, they had already prepared for it, so the physical strength of the Northwest Army was not too much of a drain. Moreover, it was only the ordinary army that was encamped just now, and the Shura army has always been ready to go. At this time, it is time for these elites to come into play.
With the orderly issuance of military orders, the Northwest Army quickly gathered together and formed a formation. The mountain breeze is blowing, and the clothes are blowing, slightly chilling in late autumn and early winter. As soon as Gao Tian gave an order, the ten thousand armies stepped forward, and the two armies continued to approach.
However, what was a little different from the past was that this time the Northwest Army was slowly approaching the enemy with the vehicle formation as the center.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! The huge drums of war sounded, and the momentum of the two armies became more and more solemn.
Suddenly, the enemy's horn sounded endlessly, and the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Hu soldiers, who were also the personal soldiers of the Hu Great Khan, pounced like a torrent, trying to break through the defense line of the Northwest Army in one fell swoop. The cavalry's advance was so fierce that even the spear formation, which was holding the heart of death, could not resist, and no enemy formation could stop it. The charging formation of 30,000 elite cavalry is enough to instantly crush the army of more than 100,000 in the northwest.
Thousands of horses galloped, the ground shook, and everyone changed color.
This is the usual tactic of the steppe peoples, and it is also one of the strongest and most powerful tactics.
Just when the faces of the other generals of the Northwest Army changed slightly, a sneer appeared on Gao Tian and Xiaxia's faces. Mercury's thousands of years of war history is not in vain, and now let them know the power of the art of war in another world.
The cavalry charge was not so simple, and the speed was slowly accelerated. First, it maintained a certain speed rhythmically, and when it was two miles away, it exerted its force violently, and the war horse immediately accelerated, and its momentum rushed up like a tide.
At this time, the car array is also ready. I only heard an order, "Hum! With a bang, the sky darkened, and thousands of arrows covered the sky like raindrops, and then rained down. And there was a heavy crossbow, aimed at the galloping iron cavalry for direct fire.
"Poof, poof......" First a rain of arrows fell from the sky. Suddenly, a group of cavalry in the range turned into hedgehogs and fell from their horses. And the direct shot of the heavy crossbow was aimed at the galloping horses.
"Poof!" This kind of heavy crossbow is actually a small bed crossbow, and this kind of crossbow has appeared in the Warring States. At this time, the bed crossbow on the chariot camp was strictly speaking small compared to the bed crossbow on the heavy close. But it was still necessary to wind the shaft, and the crossbow arrows fired were one meter long, enough to shoot through heavy armor, and even directly through people and horses. The range of the crossbow shot, the arrow of the warhorse. He went straight in, could no longer keep sprinting, fell heavily, and slid on the ground for more than ten meters. Even if you can't hear it, you can feel it.
This is a small bed crossbow specially prepared by the Northwest Ordnance Division for the car formation.
I only heard the sound of "boom", after the rain of arrows, slowed down, and several horses crashed into the car camp, making the car camp sway, fortunately end to end, not overturned or broken.
On the high platform, they could even feel the power of the heavy thousand catties pressing up. Therefore, on the battlefield, even a first-class master, even a top master, cannot turn the tide of the battle with personal courage, and it is very rare to be able to protect himself.
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