Chapter 701: Fierce Battle (3)

The morning sun is rising, and the trumpet is sounding.

After a torturous night, the battlefield outside Jingyu City ushered in an unusual morning. The generals and soldiers on both sides knew that today was the day of the decisive battle, and the deer would be killed this morning. Rather cautious and tense than the previous night, the soldiers relaxed as the dawn of dawn illuminated the land.

The so-called relaxation can be called the helplessness of knowing that you are about to die.

The soldiers who got up in the morning buried the pot to make rice, the dried beef and mutton that were reluctant to put in the rice were also generously poured into the pot, and the bean cakes and other refined grains that were reluctant to feed the horses on weekdays were also dumped in the manger.

The generals were also very kind, usually with a straight face and angry eyes, but now they were smiling about patrolling the camp, and even had time to joke with the soldiers. The soldiers also had time to tidy up their hair and beards, which had been messed up by the days of fighting, and their tattered clothes were carefully tied with straw ropes. Even if you are dying today, you must eat enough and go neatly.

The corpses scattered on the battlefield yesterday evening were not cleaned up due to the tension of last night, and the stench had been emitted after steaming all night in the hot weather, which attracted hundreds of vultures to hover in the air, and the bold ones fell beside the corpses, frantically devouring carrion and intestines, and the situation was unsightly.

No one cares about these details, today they fall into the belly of birds and beasts, tomorrow they may be themselves, and in the place of death and no burial, entering the belly of birds and beasts may not be a gift of immortality.

The sun slowly peeked out of the head of Jingyu City, which had become a ruined city after a night of fire, but in the eyes of the bald man, this pile of ruins in front of him was an obstacle blocking the advance of his army, and today he would completely conquer this ruin and open the passage to the east and north.

The trumpets sounded, and the well-fed Tatar soldiers got up to straighten their armor, inspect their weapons, and pull out their horses. There was only a short moment from leisure to nervousness, and a moment later, the entire Tartar military camp was already full of people neighing and shouting and clamour.

The officers of the battalions shouted loudly and ordered the whole army to be suppressed, and the soldiers and horses ran endlessly, and the yellow dust was rolling everywhere. The soldiers of the first battalion left the camp one after another, slowly gathering and standing on the battlefield.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army in Jingyu City, thousands of heads have emerged on the ruins of Jingyu City, even if it is a ruin, the Ming army does not intend to give up here, they know that the defense measures of this ruin have been useless, and there is no need for Tartars to bombard.

The bald man stood on a small earthen bag with his eyes like a falcon, and his eyes wandered around looking for the banner of the commander of the Ming army, but he did not find the Yellow Dragon Banner that represented the commander of the Ming army, nor did he find the surname of the Ming general when he went out to fight.

He has decided to fight to the death with the Ming army here, and the strategy of the three-way assault set last night has been set in stone, although the firearms of the Ming army yesterday are powerful, but the obvious range is not far and the number is not much, if you want to stop the Hong Lou of 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry, it is just talking. If it hadn't happened suddenly, and the Ming army had chosen a clever timing and direction of attack yesterday, the iron hooves of the war horses would have stepped on these fire-breathing monsters without fear and destroyed them. And today, the simultaneous attack in three directions avoids the possibility of flank attacks, the charging army has no flanks, which side receives the sniper of the Ming army's firearms, it immediately disperses the formation and rushes up, destroying it at any cost, this is the method of dealing with the Ming army's firearms today, although it is stupid, but it is absolutely effective.

The horn sounded three more times, and the low and vast sound was like a shadow slowly enveloping the battlefield, and the 50,000 cavalry were divided into dozens of echelons, all of whom had their nostrils fluttering and their wheezing intensified. The battle-hardened horse also realized that the attack was about to begin, and the horse's nose was spraying hot air, and the hooves were nervous.

"Kill." A shout from the chest and abdomen resounded throughout the battlefield, and with this shout, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses shouted in unison, and the sound resounded through the earth and the sky. The vultures, which were gnawing at the corpses of the battlefield, were frightened, fluttered their wings, and screamed into the sky, while the earth began to shake, smoke and dust began to rise, and the Tartar cavalry began to trot.

Dozens of paces later, the war horse began to accelerate and gallop from a trot, and after running a hundred steps, it had already rushed forward like lightning with four hooves in the air. The first echelon was about 3,000 cavalry, and after running out of a thousand steps, the battle flag in the formation waved, the formation suddenly changed, one team became three teams, and rushed to the left, center and right directions.

The cavalry echelon in the rear was also concocted in the same way, and immediately changed its formation when it reached the edge of the battlefield, one team rushed to Jinglu City head-on, and the other two teams turned diagonally to the south and north of Jingyu City at a large angle, forming a three-bread clamp charge.

The defenders of the Ming army at the head of the city responded quickly, and in the ruins, more than 40 Song Lady rocket artillery were lined up and placed in the open space cleared out behind the city wall.

The Ming army obviously ignored the outflanking of the Tartar soldiers on the left and right, and they only attacked the enemy who charged head-on, for no special reason, it was entirely because the blockade area of firearms was not enough, and they could only concentrate on attacking one side. More than 40 rocket launchers were enough to block the front of the wall, which was about two miles wide, and although the Tartar formation tried to keep it loose, it still suffered heavy damage.

Hundreds of war horses rolled on the ground, and the men on the horses flew into the air and fell heavily into the dust, and the more than 1,000 cavalry of the first echelon in front of them were quickly put down in half; As the remaining hundreds of cavalry approached the ruined walls, they were subjected to a dense rain of arrows shot from the ruins, and no more than a hundred of them could rush into the ruins.

But the cavalry of the second echelon of the Tartars was also hundreds of paces away, and the companions absorbed huge casualties to give them a chance, and the two thousand cavalry of the second echelon paid more than three hundred casualties, and all the rest rushed into the gap in the ruins. The Ming army in the city swarmed and engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat. The rocket artillery ignored the hand-to-hand combat in front of them, and the leading generals kept waving red flags, making the beehive-like barrels fire again and again, and pouring raindrops of shotguns on the heads of the Tartar soldiers rushing in the rear.

At the beginning, the Ming army's strategy of abandoning the two wings and concentrating forces on the front still had an advantage, and the thousands of Tartar cavalry who rushed into the city fell into the encirclement of tens of thousands of Ming troops, and the terrain in the city was rubble, and the horse advantage of the Tartar cavalry was difficult to play, and they soon fell into a bitter battle. However, when the cavalry on both flanks found that the Ming army's firearms were arranged on the front, they quickly seized the east and west city walls and supported them from both sides. As the number of people continued to increase, the Ming army in the city gradually became no opponent and began to retreat, but in fact they had no way to retreat; Even the more than 1,000 gunners who operated the rocket launchers took up their blades and joined the battle group after running out of ammunition.

He paid close attention to the battle situation, he had more than 70,000 soldiers and horses on hand and 20,000 in hand, he was observing the position of the main force of the Ming army, Jingyu City was about to arrive, didn't Song Nan plan to hold this strategic place? Or has this guy sold the soldiers and horses in the city and chose to retreat to preserve his strength?

The more he thought about it, the more unlikely he felt, if Song Nan led the army to retreat, there was no need for him to send so many people to death, and there was no need to place powerful firearms on the opposite side, knowing that he would not be able to withstand the fierce impact of the Tatar cavalry, so there was no sound around him, where was their main army?

"Father Khan, let's attack the whole army, Jingyu City is ours, there is no need to stay here and wait for them, it is estimated that this guy has already run away last night." Tulu whispered from the side.

Bald Meng Ke was a little uneasy, but he still decided not to be suspicious anymore, so he nodded and said: "Okay, order the rear army to move, go to Jinglu, pay close attention to whether there are signs of the Ming army's actions around, and once there is a situation, immediately report to Ben Khan to know......"

Before his words fell, a sharp whistling sound sounded from the sky behind him, accompanied by a sky-high white smoke, and at the same time the sound of killing came from behind; The bald man frowned and said, "Do you attack from behind?" Do you really want to do this? ”

Tulu quickly summoned the soldiers to inquire, and after a while, he learned the situation, and sure enough, tens of thousands of Ming troops in the rear launched an attack on the rear camp baggage team, and they came in a roundabout way from behind the loess bag of the rolling hills on both sides, and the number was more than 30,000.

"Song Nan, Song Nan, I overestimated you, but your move was in my expectation; The order went down, ordered the rear battalion of 10,000 troops to be delayed, and ordered General Temur to lead 10,000 cavalry to attack in a roundabout way, and you will send all the cavalry in my hands to attack secretly, how can you know that I have been prepared. Song Nan, the shame of Xinpingbao can be washed away today, and you, like other generals in the Ming Dynasty, go home. The bald man sneered and was complacent in his heart.