Chapter 654
The battlefield was full of smoke and blackened corpses. A warrior with a bayonet in his hand, a pair of dying eyes. More than half of Wuwei City had fallen, and all the battles were going on within five hundred meters of the Yamen.
A warehouse for storing medical alcohol was discovered by the Mongols, and Cao Bianjiao thought it was too dangerous, so he put the warehouse outside. Unexpectedly, disaster was left behind.
When a group of Liao troops counterattacked, a hundred and ten glass bottles were suddenly thrown out of the enemy position. The bottle shattered on the broken bricks, and by the time the strong smell of alcohol had spread, it was too late.
A flaming arrow fell accurately, and the Mongols used their guns, but they did not forget their ancestors' ability to eat.
The commando team of more than fifty people suddenly turned into burning people. The fire burned on the warriors, and the warriors let out the most miserable howls. Warriors are like torches moving one by one. At the front of the torch was a bayonet, with a flame at the tip, which frantically rushed towards the Mongol position.
The Mongols were stupid, some shot, some threw away their guns and ran. More people stood stupidly, their mouths wide open, their eyes glaring, their expressions stiff like zombies.
Rushing to the front with flaming bayonets, the commandos were already at their limit. There was no stabbing action at all, and the gun in his hand was thrown away, and he threw himself on the Mongol. The howling warriors used all their strength to dig their fingers almost into the flesh.
The air was filled with the smell of burnt skin and flesh, and Cao Bianjiao led the second echelon to charge with tears and recapture the lost position.
Violent explosions rang out from inside the yamen, and all five mortars in the entire courtyard were wiped out.
The artillery was so fierce that it couldn't cool down even if it was watered constantly. Finally, the mortar blew up!
Cao Bianjiao took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, ten fifty-eight.
"Uncle! If you don't arrive at twelve o'clock, you'll have to collect my body. Cao Bianjiao looked at the east and muttered to himself.
Gerdan was a little dissatisfied, originally he thought that ten o'clock would end the battle. But now that the fight has reached eleven o'clock, the Liao army is still resisting. This is different from what Lanzhou City encountered! It can be seen that there is still a huge difference between the main force of the Liao army and the garrison division.
But as it stands, it's time to end the battle at noon anyway. The Liao army has been compressed to the extreme, and it won't take long for the land of projectiles to be conquered.
"Your Royal Highness! Oh no. While he was triumphant, suddenly Danzira hurried over with his attendants.
"What's wrong? Asked you to be on guard on the perimeter, how did you run back? Gerdan asked, frowning.
"The Ming army, reinforcements from the Ming army have arrived. There's still forty miles or so to go, and you look at the airships. Danzira pointed in the direction of the sun with his hand, and against the backdrop of the bright sun, more than a dozen airships seemed to emerge from the sun. The airship was painted with a hideous mask, dragging its massive body forward violently.
Geldan felt cold all over his body for a moment, and grabbed Danzira's arm: "How many reinforcements are there?" ”
"There are too many to count, and there must be one or two hundred thousand. Your Royal Highness, retreat quickly. Danzira said eagerly.
"It's better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers, let's attack Wuwei for so long, how can we go without eating the Ming army in Wuwei City. There are still forty miles of reinforcements, Danzira, you take someone to snipe, let's work harder to kill the Ming army in Wuwei City. Dorgon stepped forward, and he felt it was a shame to go this way.
"Hmmm! That's fine, the Ming army didn't have cavalry, and they wouldn't march too fast. There's still an hour to go here, so you can drag it out for as long as you want. "Geldan immediately agreed, withdraw the troops now, and the last night was in vain, and more than 3,000 people died in vain.
"No, Your Royal Highness Prince, although the Ming army today does not ride horses, they ride things with two wheels, and the speed of that thing is faster than that of horses. Forty miles, I don't think it will take me more than an hour to get there.
Even if I snipe desperately, I can't stop the airship. We rode horses, not eagles. Danzira pointed to the airship in the sky.
"Damn it! It's a bicycle, and they're actually transporting that thing to the northwest. "Dolgon has been to the capital, and he's seen bicycles. As soon as Danzira described it, he immediately knew what the Ming army was riding.
"That thing is powerful?" Gerdan looked at Dorgon.
"If you ride on the road, you should be like a first-class war horse. Relying on this thing, the Ming army could march hundreds of miles overnight. In the future, our cavalry superiority has narrowed again. Dolgon lamented helplessly, and affirmed again in his heart that the Mongols could not defeat the Ming Dynasty. is so provoking Daming, and it is conceivable that he will be killed by Daming in the end.
"Damn, where did they get such a powerful thing out." Gerdan gritted his teeth.
"This is the industrial capacity that Li Xiao said, the industry of the Ming Dynasty can produce enough materials to come out. You haven't been to the capital to see it, where the factories are next to each other, and it's time to go to work. Thousands of people commute to work on these bicycles. Recalling what he had seen in the capital, Dorgon shook his head helplessly. Why can't I live in such a country, but I have to mix with the Mongolians who are full of sheep's smell.
"Now is not the time to speak, Your Highness the Prince! Retreat. "Danzira is in a hurry, and now you still have time to chat? Other people's reinforcements are almost poked in the ass!
"Alright! Let people withdraw, let's go back to Zhangye. Gerdan reluctantly ordered.
"It's not back to Zhangye, it's back to the Ili River Valley." Dorgon said suddenly.
"Back to the Ili Valley? So ...... we go? ”
"We've robbed Lanzhou of the sky, which is already a great thing. If you stay here, you will lose your money, and you will simply go back to the Ili River Valley. I've heard that the Great Khan has been in bad health lately. If the Great Khan went to see the Immortal Heaven, only Arabutan was by his side...... You say! ”
"Alright! When we went back to the Ili River Valley, we didn't believe that their bikes could ride thousands of miles after us. Remove! When Gerdan heard Dorgon's words, he immediately changed his mind. The great position of the Khan was too important for him.
Or that everything he did today was for the great throne of that khan.
Suddenly, the trumpet sounded, and the Mongol soldiers in the city pricked up their ears, thinking that they had heard it wrong. It is indeed an order to retreat, seeing that the Ming army will not be able to hold on, and Wuwei City will be taken with a little more strength, and retreat at this time?
The leaders suspected that the always wise and resolute Gerdan had a brain in water.
When the trumpet sounded again, all the leaders immediately ordered their men to retreat. According to Mongolian military regulations, the three-way horn is not to be beheaded. Gerdan was very strict with his army, and they didn't want their heads to be hung on the flagpole waiting to dry.
Regretfully abandon the position and take everything that can be taken with him. The Mongols withdrew from Wuwei City like a tide, but fortunately there was no city wall, so it was much more convenient to withdraw.
When they exited Wuwei City, they saw a huge airship in the sky. Seeing the hideous beast head painted on the airship, they just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. No one asked Geldan why he was retreating at this time, everyone was busy stuffing their things into their backpacks, and then hopping on horseback and galloping north.
When he saw the Mongols retreating, Cao Bianjiao actually cried. Stepping on the broken bricks and tiles, he picked up the broken Daming Dragon Flag. The golden dragon had several holes in its body, and it was constantly swaying in the cold wind. When the sun shines, the brilliance reflected by the golden threads makes it almost impossible to look at it directly.
Facing the Dragon Banner Guard Company, he raised his hand and saluted, and the guard company commander's hand was only three fingers left. Of the 125-person guard company, there are now only 14 people left, including Cao Bianjiao.
There was no laughter, no cheers. Everyone sat on the ground with their butts on their butts, and they couldn't pull it up. Others fell asleep against the corner, exhausted by a night and a morning of intense fighting.
People ran through the streets, returning to their houses to see if they had been destroyed by the fighting. Others look around for their relatives who have been drafted. Those who saw that their homes were in ruins, with tears on their faces, kept rummaging through the ruins, hoping to find something useful for them.
The Mongols were all cavalry, and they assembled very quickly. Similarly, the retreat is fast.
Black Bull finally waited for his own reinforcements, but the reinforcements were only about a hundred or so. After arriving in Twin Flags, he began assembling a strange-looking gun.
"What the hell?" Black Bull had never seen this kind of gun, and it looked like a gun. But there is a tripod underneath, and the bullets are skewered with chains, which looks like lamb skewers.
Could it be that this thing is fired in a row? Being super sensitive to firearms, Black Bull guessed.
"Commander, this thing is called a heavy machine gun. Two hundred rounds of ammunition are fired in one minute. See if this bullet is more than two sizes larger than a rifle bullet. Within 400 meters, the bullets hit like water. No matter how many Mongol cavalry came, they were all sent to death. The company commander at the head was very excited to introduce to the black bull.
Hei Niu had seen a repeating gun, which was an old-fashioned machine gun of the Liao army. To put it bluntly, it's a large revolver. After a few shots, you have to change wheels, which is very troublesome.
"Two hundred rounds a minute? Can you stand this barrel? Hei Niu looked at the barrel of the machine gun and asked with some confusion.
"Shoot 600 rounds for a magazine, and five people scout this gun. The rest of the people are protecting these guns. If the Mongols really rushed up, they would have blown up the gun as soon as possible. Even if he died, he couldn't let this thing fall into the hands of the Mongols. The company commander said righteously.
The black bull nodded, thinking that it was better not to let the Mongols get this kind of big killing weapon.
The town of Shuangqi was stuck on the way of the Mongol retreat, and in fact, the reason why the town of Shuangqi was formed here was because it was stuck at the exit of the desert. Doing business in the desert is not a random route. You need to follow a fixed road, because only with a fixed road can you find an oasis or a water source halfway. In the desert, a water cut is a deadly event.
If the Mongols wanted to retreat back to Zhangye, Shuangqi Town was the only way to go. If they don't go to Twin Flags, they will only have to make a big detour from the desert. For the unprepared Mongols, it was very dangerous to rush into the desert.
At dusk, rangers began to appear on the outskirts of Twin Flags.
The Liao soldiers, who had already dug the fortifications, fired a few shots and killed one of the rangers, and those rangers immediately learned to behave. Definitely not within five hundred meters of Twin Banner Town, they just stood in the distance, looking at the town that they had ransacked.
In two days, Black Bull has dedicated all his military talents to this town.
Traffic trenches were dug in the ground like spider webs, and behind them were mortar positions. Mines were laid in front of them, and stones of various sizes were placed irregularly on the ground. There were also some small pits dug in the ground, which were all tricks of the Liao army to block the cavalry.
Hei Niu felt that the Mongols would not want to kill them from Shuangqi Town if they did not throw away thousands of corpses.
Now with the blessing of the machine gun, the number of enemies destroyed by the Black Bull has increased exponentially. He felt that it would not be too much of a problem to complete the task of holding on until noon tomorrow.
When the sun finally fell silent in the desert, with the last rays of daylight, the black bull saw a dense Mongol army. It seems that there are 40,000 or 50,000 people.
The black bull gasped, he thought that there would be many Mongolians, but he didn't expect that there would be so many.
It was just getting dark, and the light was completely dark. The moon is rising, and the light has not yet shone on the earth. The Mongols took advantage of this darkness and began to attack!
Thousands of horses galloped at the same time, and the sound was not much different from muffled thunder. In the darkness, only rolling thunder could be heard, but the knight could not be seen.
The first charge had such a might, and the black bull's heart rose to his throat.
"Boom!" In the charging ranks, brilliant sparks exploded.
The mine exploded, and at the same time the black bull knew that the enemy troops were within five hundred meters.
"Brother! It's up to you, your machine gun is blowing so hard, just shoot into the darkness. As long as you hold on for half an hour, the moonlight will make the earth light up again. Rest assured, there will be no sandstorms tonight. If there is another sandstorm, Lao Tzu will pay you with his life. The black bull patted the commander of the machine gun company on the shoulder.
"Sir, don't worry, let me see the power of these guys. Dry! ”
The company commander waved his hand and shouted, and the signal soldiers around him immediately launched a Sky Monkey into the sky. Makqin heavy machine guns, separated by 100 meters, fired almost simultaneously, tracer bullets trailing through the air with long tails.
The black bull only felt that his ears were "buzzing" and "buzzing", and although he could not see the situation in the distance, he could imagine what happened to the Mongol cavalry.
The soldiers were in the trenches with their rifles in their hands, looking forward very seriously. At this time, as long as something moves, it will definitely be beaten into a sieve by hundreds of rifles.
No, nothing. The charging Mongol cavalry seemed to have disappeared, and finally stopped firing when the Maxim heavy machine gun had changed its barrel for two rounds. Everyone poked their heads out of the trench and looked closely, but no one spoke, not even a cough.
At this moment, everything is quiet!