Chapter 51: Attack in the Night (Five Watches)
When Wu Sangui dispatched his troops, the middle and high-level of the Mongolian army had already completed the military discussion.
According to today's report on Tuolei, they determined that this group of Ming reinforcements was extremely weak, and it could even be said that it was vulnerable.
Especially last night, I didn't dare to set up camp, and it wasn't until noon today that the reinforcements arrived, and I calmed down, obviously frightened.
The three of them agreed that the Ming army was so bold that there was nothing to worry about.
In the end, it was agreed that he would stick to it tonight, have a good rest, and early tomorrow morning, he would attack first without breakfast and take him off guard.
The Mongolian battalion slept boldly and with confidence, but the Ming army packed up in full swing.
500 Chongzhen repeaters were quickly assembled. Following the shield men and cavalry, slowly advance towards the enemy camp.
As soon as the Ming army moved, the Mongolian guards heard the movement, and when they saw the Ming army marching, they immediately rang the gong.
The prince and the soldiers, who had just laid down, were woken up and got up and gathered in a scolding manner.
Duan Luobu had not slept all the time, he had already finished draped, and took the lead in climbing the lookout and looking at the Ming army through the extremely faint crescent light.
I saw that the enemy soldiers were crowded a mile away, and they advanced slowly, until they were four or five hundred paces away from themselves, and then slowly stopped.
The Mongolian scouts put iron armor on their horses, and they themselves wore thick chain mail, and they went out of the camp to investigate.
Afraid of the range of the Ming army's bows and crossbows, they looked around from a distance, then rode back and came to Duan Luobu and knelt down on one knee.
"Tell the prince that the Ming army marched 400 steps in front of our battalion, erected their shields, and took a defensive posture. We can't find out the situation in the formation. ”
Duan Rob laughed dumbly when he heard this.
Who is the commander of the Ming army, with a pig-like brain, who doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, and runs to the front of my battalion to defend?
Are you afraid of my Mongol warriors attacking at night?
Prince Heta, surrounded by the guards, hurried over, and after listening to the report of the scout, he also laughed.
"Since they are afraid of night attacks, let's really go and kill him, maybe we will break his camp tonight and succeed in a battle!"
The generals laughed when they heard this, and went back to count the men and horses with a relaxed expression, preparing to go out of the camp to participate in the battle.
Wu Sangui looked at the Chongzhen repeater crossbows in five rows, and couldn't close his mouth in surprise.
The Wyvern Army can't ride and shoot, and the ability to make this kind of big killing weapon is really first-class.
It's only been a few days, and it's on such a scale.
500 repeaters, a salvo is 50,000 arrows.
The disadvantage is that it consumes too many crossbow arrows, especially arrows, which are too large.
If it weren't for the fact that a large number of thieves and prisoners had been captured before, a salvo of such a scale, according to the previous reserves of the Ming army, would have been interrupted in two rounds.
Looking at the repeater, Xiong Wei suddenly regained his confidence, he personally calibrated the angle and direction, and ordered loudly!
"Put!"
Whoosh ......
The crossbow, mixed with half of the rockets, flew away and fell like fireworks towards the Mongolian camp.
When Duan Luobu heard the sound of arrows, he immediately remembered the situation when he attacked Jinzhou at night, and knew that this was a mysterious weapon of the Ming army.
He shouted and hid on the spot, and he himself hid under a wooden wall.
Whew......
Countless bolts rained down from the sky, and the Mongols hid in all directions.
This time they have experience, and they are not charging, and no one will wait stupidly to die, all looking for cover and shelter.
In particular, the military tent was behind him, with wooden planks, shields, thick felt, etc., which were quickly held above his head by the soldiers for protection.
Some people even lifted clay pots and other cooking utensils, although they are not very beautiful, but they can save their lives.
For a time, everyone in the Mongolian camp was hiding, rockets set fire to military tents, and no one dared to brave the rain of arrows to fight the fire.
Whew......
The first round of arrows has just passed, and the second round has come.
The Mongol soldiers, who wanted to extinguish the fire, had to hide again.
As time passed, more and more military tents were ignited by rockets, and the fire grew larger, and Duan Luobu had to give an order for the soldiers to brave the rain of arrows to put out the fire.
Whew......
Whew......
After four rounds of arrow rain, the Mongolian military camp was in shambles, and the fire was raging, but due to proper protection, the loss of personnel was still within a controllable range.
Kill......
The Ming army basically ran out of crossbow arrows, and the cavalry began to charge.
Wu Sangui left the recruits to protect Chongzhen, and he took the previous Guanning army with a total of 15,000 people, divided into 15 thousand-man teams, like a tiger descending the mountain, and rushed to the Mongolian camp.
Since the Mongol army was hiding and fighting fires, and the two armies were close to each other, Wu Sangui easily rushed into the enemy camp.
The Ming army was like a bamboo, and the horse's hooves were hurrying, constantly dispersing the enemy troops that had just gathered, not giving the Mongols a chance to fight back.
The Ming knights opened and closed the slashing, and the Mongol soldiers near the front line were difficult to resist, and a large number of people were killed and wounded.
Zhu Youjian watched the battle from a distance, silently estimated the combat strength of both sides, and compared it with the reinforcements he brought, thinking about the future training method and development direction.
In this era, the Mongols and Jurchens had a natural advantage in terms of horse kung fu, and if the Han people, who were mainly agricultural, did not rely on the superiority of weapons, it would really be difficult to suppress them for a long time.
Especially after losing the horse breeding land in the north, the Ming war horses are scarce, and the quality of combat power is far inferior to the grassland war horses.
In addition to weapons like the Chongzhen repeater, Daming must develop better thermal weapons as soon as possible!
Woowoo......
While Zhu Youjian was pondering, Mongolia sounded the horn, which indicated that the Mongolian soldiers in the rear had assembled and were ready to counterattack.
Zhu Youjian could not see the situation in the distance, and could observe the battlefield with limited eyesight.
In the area where the fire was not large, there were Mongolian warriors who hurriedly mounted their war horses and rushed to kill in groups.
The team that had prepared just now rushed in.
It was a moment of negligence that the camp was attacked.
At this time, the rain of arrows stopped, and the Mongol cavalry suddenly rose up, and the time for revenge had come.
Although the place that had just been dispersed by the Ming army could not form a large number of charging formations, although the large battalion was crowded, it was not suitable to give full play to the charging advantage.
However, the rushing and killing method of groups of three or five and superb riding and archery skills still posed a huge threat to Wu Sangui's 15 thousand-man team.
Wu Sangui had already expected that every ten people of the Ming cavalry would gather together, 7 people would protect the perimeter, and 3 people would fire five-arrow crossbows on the inside.
Taking advantage of the numerical advantage of the five-arrow crossbow to shoot at the enemy's dense places, the five-arrow crossbow is extremely powerful at such a close distance.
The effect of this tactic was very significant, and under the continuous attack of the Ming army, it was difficult for the Mongols to gather enough combat power to rush and kill the line.
In addition, Wu Sangui adhered to the principle of having a large number of people and great strength, and practiced the tactics of a group of people single-handedly taking on one enemy.
Let the battle group pick out the lone Mongols and besiege them.
Zhu Youjian watched the battle from the lookout, and by the light of the fire, he watched Wu Sangui kill vividly, and he could clearly feel the bravery and unyielding of the Mongolian warriors.
If he can have 200,000 Mongolian iron horsemen in the future, the Ming Dynasty will be able to effectively control the steppe and Liaodong, and even, the northern region of China should be able to push to the coast of the Arctic Ocean!
Although they struggled to organize an effective charge and retreated, they were still desperately resisting.
With his superb archery skills, coupled with the support of the rear brigade, he quickly blocked the momentum of the rapid advance of the Ming army.
Zhu Youjian looked at it and frowned, with such a play, I don't know how much the precious life of the Ming people would be consumed.
"Bring me my rifle!" Zhu Youjian drank heavily.