Chapter 316: Strong Siege
The generals of the various garrisons of Li Yutian's battalion stared at the front for a moment, and shouted again: "First Chongzhen repeater, then mortar, then Chongzhen five-arrow crossbow, and finally flintlock pistol in turn!"
"Kill, kill, kill......"
The Ming army shouted.
The Mongol army besieged for a month, and they were also impatient, and they had long wanted to rush into the camp in front and kill all the Han people who broke into the grassland.
At this time, when they got the military order, they all went crazy and galloped.
They believed that no fortification would be able to stop the onslaught of 200,000 cavalry!
The barracks in front of you will be broken!
The Han people in front of you will die!
The Mongol leader was full of excitement and a little apprehensive, "If Li Yutian's army is completely annihilated, will Chongzhen retaliate or negotiate peace?"
There was no hesitation in the battle, and the distance between the two armies was rapidly shortened.
Whoosh ......
The Mongols reached 500 paces before the formation, and the Ming army's Chongzhen crossbows began to fire a salvo.
Tens of thousands of sharp arrows roared away in batches, falling like rain in the Mongolian army's array.
Countless unlucky eggs fell from their horses with arrows, and were trampled into flesh by the hooves of the rear team, and their bones were gone.
Boom Boom Boom ......
When the Mongolian army rushed to 300 steps in front of the battle, Chongzhen's crossbow had not stopped, the arrow rain was still fierce, more than 1,000 mortars began to roar, the sound resounded through the grassland, and the explosion blossomed everywhere.
The power of the flowering bullet is a hundred times greater than that of the repeater, and with each explosion, it will splash sharp shrapnel, tearing the flesh and blood of the knight and the warhorse, and taking the life of the Mongolian knight.
The Mongolian army has not seen artillery, and even participated in the Battle of Songjin three years ago.
At that time, there were 500 cannons fired at once, and the power was terrifying.
The shelling now is even more terrifying than then, as if thousands of red-coated cannons were roaring, constantly reaping the lives of Mongolian warriors.
Clusters of ......
The roar of the mortars did not stop, and more than 10,000 soldiers began to fire five-arrow crossbows.
More than 50,000 sharp crossbow arrows flew to the Mongolian army 200 paces in front of the formation at one time.
These bolts were 1 meter above the ground and most of them pierced into the horse's legs and belly.
Due to the rush of the Mongol troops, more than a dozen rows in front and behind, even if they did not shoot the enemy in the front row, they would hit the enemy in the squadron or even in the rear.
The hit rate is quite high.
At this time, the front army of the Mongolian army was served by the five-arrow crossbow, the Chinese army was bombarded by mortar artillery, and the rear team enjoyed the baptism of Chongzhen's crossbow.
The death toll has soared.
However, due to the fact that everyone was rushing and scattered throughout the encirclement, although they also knew that there were people around them who were constantly falling from their horses, no one could imagine that the casualties of the Mongol coalition army after this charge had reached a terrifying number.
The ignorant are fearless, and everyone is still galloping.
In the Ming military camp, eight watchtowers were set up, which were 3 zhang high, which was the commanding height on this grassland, and the enemy was always observed.
Just now, the soldiers on the watchtower in the northeast corner raised a red flag.
This shows that the entire Mongolian army broke into 500 paces, and Chongzhen's crossbow stopped firing.
The Mongols at the front had already rushed 100 paces in front of the formation.
The Ming army flintlock and rifle teams were dispatched.
The rifle corps, which was small in number, stood at the firing point high in the camp and continued to shoot.
The 20,000-strong flintlock musketeers took up more attacking positions, and three squads of non-commissioned men fired in turn.
One round of shooting can definitely cause the loss of more than 10,000 enemy troops.
At this time, the Mongolian army began to feel that something was wrong.
They found that there were no familiar people around them, as if their familiar comrades-in-arms had lost their lives in the charge just now, and only themselves, the lucky one, had survived until now.
In addition, 200,000 people are becoming more and more concentrated, and the stormtroopers should be getting more and more crowded, but they are still relatively loose and the queues are not lengthening.
What does this mean?
It shows that the casualties are too large, and even more than half of them have been killed and injured.
Just when everyone was retreating, a small hole was revealed in the wooden wall of the Ming army.
In the hole, an elongated muzzle protruded.
Click......
A tongue of fire erupted with an unfamiliar sound.
Large swaths of cavalry fell in an instant.
The cavalry of the squadron had just seen their comrades in two or three rows in front of them fall off their horses, and before they could see the specific situation, they were hollowed out of their lives by the firearms of the Ming army.
The tongue of fire is like the gaze of death, and wherever it shines, there is a dead silence, and there is no one alive.
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In Huizhou Mansion, Azig is immediately hilly, carefully looking at Dongsheng Mountain in front of him.
I saw that on the hills outside the Dongsheng Mountain Pass, the Ming army dug three trenches, each trench was about one zhang wide, and the trenches were a hundred steps inside and outside, all of which were dense stumbling horse holes.
And the earth dug out of the trench was piled up behind it to become an earthen wall, and the earthen wall was one foot high, and the Ming army could faintly be seen flashing behind the earthen wall, and anyone could see that it would become a strangulation ground.
The three ditches and mountain passes are tightly enclosed, guarding the small basin between the Dongsheng Mountains behind them, and behind each mountain pass, you can see fuzzy tents, and a tall yellow Luo cover umbrella, which stands prominently in the distance, calling for the attack of the Jianyu army.
Azig and the others could see that those trenches and potholes, interconnected, criss-crossed, they would not be able to figure out the route and the Ming army's troop layout for a while, once a general attack on the Ming army was launched, they would be attacked from multiple directions, and the battle damage would definitely be terrible.
Fortunately, after the three trenches, the fortifications of Dongsheng Mountain were very loose, and it was obvious that the Ming army knew that after the mountain pass was lost, there would be nothing to stop the slaughter of the captives, so all personnel and equipment were used in the trenches.
It was precisely when Azig saw this that he chose to set the main attack position here.
The troops in other places on the periphery of the mountain were already very scarce, and those barracks and facilities were mainly to prevent the Ming army from breaking through, and the real attack power was insignificant.
Azig counted the troops in his hands, looked at the mountain pass trenches, and was very confident.
For him, the mountain pass outside Dongsheng Mountain must be in his bag, and the head of Emperor Chongzhen will inevitably be used as the most dazzling trophy when he ascends the throne and worships his ancestors!
Wang Shizhong and Zuo Mengeng saw the scene of the mountain pass, but they gasped.
They knew that the first to attack must be the men and horses of the left battalion. In the face of such criss-crossing trenches, the lives of the soldiers of the left battalion will be as low as grass.
Both of them could see that although the battle could be won, the left battalion must have suffered a great loss of vitality.
Looking at the tower on the top of the mountain, King Ding has been sitting peacefully.
He looked down at the soldiers in the mountain pass, at the trenches and the scattered fortifications on the mountain, at the rammed walls built by the mountains, at the mortars, at the two Makqins, at the firearms and ammunition on the side of the soldiers, at the Ming army's Sun and Moon Army flags and the fire dragon army flags fluttering everywhere, and there was a sense of indestructibility.
Although there were nearly 100,000 enemies on the opposite side, he was still confident and calm.
At this time, Chongzhen was still patrolling back and forth in the trenches on the front line, encouraging the soldiers, constantly greeting the front-line soldiers, patting almost all the soldiers on the shoulders, giving the most firm and confident gaze.