Chapter 351: Unprecedented
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Under the arrow array of the wind army, the Ningnan army broke back like a tide. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info (飨) (small) (net) provides free reading of this situation This scene is a good opportunity to beat the water dogs, and the wind army is advancing faster.
It's just that after the front army of the Ningnan Army retreated, what was revealed behind was a neat infantry phalanx. In the front of the phalanx, a long line of artillery was also placed.
At that time, there was no such concept of artillery in the minds of the officers and men of the Feng Army, and when they saw the artillery in front of the Ningnan military formation, they didn't know what it was. When people were watching curiously, the soldiers of the Ningnan army lit the medicine twists on the artillery.
With the sound of hundreds of cannons, and then look at the wind army camp, the heavy shield soldiers in the front are all broken human shields, the soldiers fell a lot, the people in the front row were beaten into pieces of meat on the spot, and the people in the back were either broken in their arms or their legs were broken, and they fell to the ground, wailing for their lives.
The artillery used by the Ningnan Army belongs to the most primitive kind of artillery, which is not loaded with shells, but some broken stones, iron pieces and other things, the range is not far, and there is no accuracy at all, but the range of attack is wide, and when a cannon is fired, the broken stones and iron pieces in the barrel fly out one by one, causing great damage to the phalanx of the legion that is not far away and stands densely and neatly.
It can be said that the Ningnan Army broke the heavy shield in the front row of the Feng Army with just one round of artillery bombardment, and then the soldiers of the Ningnan Army formation all raised their long cylindrical firearms and launched a salvo at the Feng Army camp.
The wind army's arrow array can shoot up to 150 paces away in a downwind situation, while the fire gun with gunpowder as thrust can still reach a range of 500 paces away in a headwind situation.
This is precisely the difference in power between cold and hot weapons.
This unprecedented scale of the battle between the two countries can no longer be called a battle at this moment, and it has completely turned into a one-sided massacre.
Under the attack of the firebolts, the wind soldiers fell to the ground in rows, and under the attack of the artillery, the wind soldiers were shattered in groups. The two weapons, artillery and firearms, were seen by the Wind Army for the first time, and they were completely stunned by this sudden change.
The commanders of the second, third, fifth, and sixth legions in front also ordered the soldiers under their command to speed up their advance, rush to the enemy's approach, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, but under the large-scale firearm attack, how could the soldiers rush forward?
The advance of the wind army is completely the advance of death, and every step forward of the soldiers has to fall hundreds or thousands of people.
Seeing that their own infantry corps could not withstand it and suffered heavy casualties, the Ninth Legion rushed out of the infantry phalanx of the Feng Army and carried out a cavalry charge against the Ningnan army formation.
The Ninth Legion of the Wind Country is a heavy cavalry legion, and in the era of cold weapons, heavy cavalry is equivalent to heavy armored troops, and the assault infantry phalanx is like trampling grass mustard.
However, in the face of firearms, the defense of heavy cavalry was completely useless, and the heavy armor that could not be shot through by bows and crossbows could be easily penetrated by firearms and artillery, but the disadvantage of slow speed due to heavy armor was even more exposed.
The charge of the Ninth Army can only be described as tragic, in the roaring cannons and the sound of firecrackers, the hoplites of the Ninth Army rushed up to a battalion, were knocked down a battalion, rushed up a battalion, were knocked down a corps, and in the open space in front of the Ningnan military formation, the corpses of people and war horses were stacked on top of each other, piled up so high, and the soldiers of the Feng Army used their own flesh and blood to build an insurmountable wall for themselves.
The sudden appearance and large-scale application of firearms completely changed the situation of the war between the Feng Kingdom and Ningnan, and the situation of the Feng Army's overall superiority took a sharp turn and became an all-round disadvantage.
The infantry corps could not advance, nor could the heavy cavalry corps, and it was only at this time that the wind army thought that they could not fight this war and should retreat immediately.
It's just that at this time, if they want to retreat, it is already too late, the distance between the two sides is less than two hundred paces, but the range of the guns is five hundred paces, and the range of the artillery is even longer, how can the distance difference of three hundred paces be so easy to withdraw?
While the Feng Army's camp was retreating backwards, the Ningnan Army's camp was also advancing. The soldiers in the front row stopped and reloaded the gunpowder and steel balls as soon as they finished firing the guns, while the soldiers in the back moved forward and fired the guns that had already been loaded.
This was repeated repeatedly, the soldiers advanced while shooting, and the retreat of the wind army became a result of being killed all the way, and all the way back to a rout, and the soldiers died just because of their own trampling.
In later Feng history, it is recorded that the battle of the Amdo Plain was a fiasco that the Wind Country had never experienced in its history, and the morale of the soldiers of the Feng Army had been completely defeated at the moment when the Ningnan Army suddenly used firearms. In this battle, the Wind Army had a total of eight Central Army Corps participating in the battle, and the local army reinforcements that later participated in the battle also had about two corps, but after the Battle of the Amdo Plain, the Ninth Army Corps was completely annihilated, the second, third, fifth, and sixth Army Corps were almost completely annihilated, and the Seventh and Eighth Army Corps suffered more than half of the casualties, but the first Army Corps that plundered the formation suffered fewer casualties and escorted His Majesty to the mainland.
In the history recorded by the wind people themselves, the battle of the Amdo Plain is depicted like this, and the tragedy of the battle at that time can be imagined. The Battle of the Amdo Plains is also the farewell battle of the Ninth Legion of the Wind Country, since then, there is no Ninth Army in the Wind Country, more precisely, the Wind Army is no longer a heavy cavalry corps, once swept the world, invincible, and the heavy cavalry that attacked the enemy formation like a withering and decaying heavy cavalry also withdrew from the historical stage of the Wind Country.
In the entire Battle of the Amdo Plains, the total number of troops lost by the Wind Army was no less than 700,000, of which 200,000 were casualties in front of the final battle, and in the final battle, the casualties of the Wind Army were as high as 500,000.
Not all of these 500,000 died on the battlefield, and 300,000 of them were captured by the Ningnan army.
It's just that these 300,000 captives also ended up miserable, not much different from dying in battle. After the war, the Feng army captives were forced by the Ningnan people to repair the cities damaged in the war, and they could only eat one meal a day, but the coolies they did were two or three times that of the Ningnan people, and a large number of Feng army captives were tortured to death under this bad oppression, and there were few Feng soldiers who really survived in the end.
It can be said that after this battle, the central army of the Wind Country was completely defeated. Tang Ling, escorted by the remnants of the First Army and the rest of the legions, fled all the way to the north, during which he went through more than a dozen siege battles, large and small, and finally escaped from Ningnan by luck and returned to the mainland of the Wind Country.
Of course, the Ningnan side would not miss this excellent opportunity to pursue the victory, and hundreds of thousands of Ningnan troops crossed the border between the two countries and counterattacked into the territory of the Wind Country.
Although the Ningnan Army used artillery and guns that had never appeared before in the Battle of the Amdo Plain, with the technology of Ningnan's manufacturing industry, the artillery and guns could not be produced in batches, and less than 200 guns and less than 100,000 guns were manufactured, and these guns and guns were not all used in the Battle of the Amdo Plain, but even so, the main force of the Central Army of the Wind Country was defeated.
In the later national war, it was the battle of the Ningnan army that invaded the country of wind. In the next series of battles, the famous Battle of Shiqu took place.
The firearms army of the Ningnan Army was eager to pursue and kill Tang Ling, and they chased and fought fiercely. Chased from the border between the two countries to Ningjun of the Wind Country, and then chased from Ning County to Mo County, in Shiqu of Mo County, the Ningnan Army finally caught up with Tang Ling's First Army, and as a result, in the battle, the Tenth Army of the Wind Country rushed to Shiqu from Fengdu Shangjing at an incredible speed, and successfully attacked the Ningnan Army, inflicting heavy losses on it.
The predecessor of the 10th Legion of the Windy Country was the Tiger Army, a light cavalry regiment that was brave and good at fighting, especially good at long-distance running and blitzkrieg.
The guns and artillery were very effective in restraining the heavy cavalry and infantry, but the effect on the light cavalry was very limited, especially the light cavalry still attacked suddenly, and the Ningnan army was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
This was also the first major defeat of the Ningnan army after the Battle of the Amdo Plain. The Ningnan army, which was hot-headed and went deep into the territory of the Wind Country, planning to hunt down Tang Ling to the end and swallow the Wind Country in one go, finally calmed down and had to re-examine the current battle situation, and was finally forced to retreat and retreat to Ning County in the Wind Country.
All of this is a story for later. On the last day of the Battle of the Amdo Plain, after the defeat of the Feng army, the Ningnan army gave Xiongzhen the legend of flying pigeons for the first time, briefly explaining the situation of their own victory.
Looking at this flying pigeon biography sent from the northern battlefield, Peng Huang's tears fell drippingly.
Zhang Junran, Tong Yang and other generals on the side were dumbfounded, and they didn't understand what Peng Huang was crying suddenly. Zhang Junran stepped forward and asked in a trembling voice, "Peng Shuai, our army ...... Our army can't be defeated in the north, right?"
Peng Huang shook his head, handed the battle report in his hand to Zhang Junran, looked up to the sky and sighed: "It's a big thing!"
Zhang Junran took the battle report, looked down carefully, read the few words on the battle report, he was also in tears, stunned for a while, he raised his head, saw that all the generals were looking at him, he raised the battle report in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "We won! We won the battle battlefield in the north, and the wind army was wiped out, we won!"
With his words, a burst of cheers immediately resounded in the originally silent hall, and the generals and officers of the Ningnan Army jumped and jumped with excitement, and many people cried with joy. Tong Yang also breathed a long sigh of relief, and the heart hanging in his throat finally fell.
He suddenly remembered something, rolled his eyes, and said faintly: "The battle report we got was sent back by the soldiers in front of the front!"
"Yes!" Peng Huang, who was excited, flicked the tears in the corners of his eyes with his cuffs and responded casually.
"The wind army has been defeated, it may have been wiped out, and no one should go to Zhongde County to deliver the battle report ahead, even if there is, it will be transmitted by manpower, and it is impossible to pass the book as fast as the flying pigeon. Tong Yang said thoughtfully.
Peng Huang looked at him puzzled, and Zhang Junran asked bluntly: "General Tong, what do you mean?
Tong Yang smiled leisurely, pointed to the battle report in Zhang Junran's hand, and said: "My consciousness is that only we know the battle situation in the north now, and the wind army in Xiongzhen City still knows nothing, and the opportunity for our army to completely annihilate the wind army outside the city has finally come." ”
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