Chapter 56: Reinforcements are ferocious

Since the breakthrough of the Great Wall Pass on September 17, the three ethnic coalition forces have been like a bamboo, first annihilating a Ming army of more than 10,000 people south of Yangfangbao, and then, Bayan Khan, Afuli and Arut decided to press on the whole line, the troops were divided into two roads, one was jointly commanded by three people, and went straight to Juyong Pass with absolute superiority, wanting to take Juyong Pass before the Ming Dynasty reacted, or waiting for Ming reinforcements at the foot of the Great Wall.

Along the way, the alliance of the three tribes broke through more than 10 castles of all sizes, killed more than 2,000 Ming troops, captured tens of thousands of Ming people, and captured nearly 10,000 livestock. And on the 22nd, he broke through the city of Baoan Zhou in one fell swoop, and all the more than 3,000 defenders in the city died, and tens of thousands of people became prisoners of the Tatars.

On the other hand, Allen, the leader of 30,000 households on the right wing of the Tatars, led 30,000 Tatar cavalry to besiege Xuanfu Town, continuing to deter the remnants of the surrounding Ming army, and guarding the passage of Zhangjiakou, so as not to let the Ming army in the direction of Datong cut off their retreat.

In the past few days, Allen organized a siege of the city, but even the city wall was not touched, and nearly 2,000 people were lost in vain, which made him very annoyed, and originally planned to loot the surrounding Ming army castles, but the remaining castles had already been empty, and the angry Allen was angry at the Huai'an Acropolis, and personally led 10,000 elite soldiers to attack the city.

This time, Allen learned the lesson of the failure of Xuanfu Town, not only to create a tool for siege of the city, but also to drive the looted nearly 10,000 Xuanfu people to consume the equipment of the defenders in the city for them, a battle has just ended, there are thousands of corpses lying horizontally under the city, most of them are ordinary people dressed as Xuanfu people, everywhere are pools of dazzling blood, some people who have not yet died are still lying on the ground and twitching.

The Tatar camp was stationed on a higher mound, with a simple wall built of wood and stone, the psychological effect was far greater than the actual defensive effect, on a large rock, Allen stared at the Huai'an Acropolis in the distance expressionlessly, and if he took this city, he would be richly rewarded, there was a lot of money and food in it, and the most exciting thing for him was the weapons and armor inside, and with this batch of weapons and armor, his position in the Tatar Khan would be consolidated, and no one could shake it.

Allen looked at the direction of the Huai'an Acropolis for a long time, and finally, he made up his mind, and slowly ordered to the left and right: "Pass my order, drive all the Han people forward to attack the city, and this city will be broken today!" ”

Half an hour later, the whole city in the sky, the sound of killing shook the sky, the overwhelming flow of people, the east and south of the Huai'an Acropolis surrounded by water, the besieging people, the main force is those who were driven to the Xuanfu people, behind them is the vast array of Tatars, they are dressed in armor, armed with swords, in the siege of the two days, they have only been dispatched three times, the first time just climbed the ladder and was driven down by the defenders, today at noon there are several people on the city wall.

The battle to defend the city was fought extremely fiercely, there were less than three thousand defenders in the city, after a day and a night of offensive and defensive battles, nearly a thousand people had been killed, and now even the old and weak in the city have boarded the city wall to participate in the defense of the city, with the Tatars attacking wave after wave, the defense equipment was consumed very quickly, once consumed, the next was the most brutal hand-to-hand combat, looking at the Tatars outside the city, everyone knew that there were no reinforcements to come, the city could not be defended.

At this moment, a whining horn suddenly sounded, and everyone understood that the Tatars were about to attack the city.

The whining horn echoed sadly in the sky above.....

Nearly 10,000 Tatars rushed to the Huai'an Acropolis in an overwhelming manner, and among them were dozens of ladders, and the guards looked at the Tatars who were surging like a tide, and shouted to the gunners around him: "Leave those people alone, aim at the ladders, and hit me hard." ”

"Fire!"

With the roar of the officers, the thunderclap of cannons roared, and the Francophone cannons on the city wall spewed fierce flames in front of them in turn, and large puffs of white smoke rose up, and the Tatars continued to march amid the roar of the artillery.

After a few rounds, the cannonballs were finished, but unfortunately, all the ladders built by the Tatars could not be destroyed, and there were still twenty or thirty ladders close to the city wall. ”

With an order, the Ming army ignited the earth-shaking thunder in his hand, and threw it towards the Tatar crowd under the city, the lead emitted sneering white smoke, burning wildly in the air, in the Tatar scream, the earth-shattering thunder exploded violently, the earth-shattering explosion almost collapsed the city wall, the huge impact force blew up countless Tatars, the earth-shaking thunder one by one threw down the city wall, the deafening explosion, the Tatars were killed and injured a large number of people immediately.

The Tatar archers also took advantage of the defenders leaning out of their bodies to open their bows and shoot arrows, and from time to time the defenders fell with arrows.

The Tatars fired a thousand arrows in unison, without aim, and fired intensively at the city walls, suppressing the defenders and not daring to raise their heads, especially the people who defended the city, who were not armoured, and suddenly fell to the ground in large swaths, lying on the ground and wailing.

The guard's eyes were red, the cannonballs were gone, and the earth-shattering thunder was about to run out, so he desperately shouted loudly, "Don't be afraid, as long as you hold out until dark, we will win, stabilize me!" ”

The brutal and fierce battle to defend the city officially began, boulders and rolling logs were thrown from the city wall from time to time, but still could not stop the footsteps of the Tatars, hundreds of Tatars had climbed to less than ten steps from the battlements of the city wall, the guards sat there in a daze, now even the arrows were exhausted, only a few rolling logs remained, after a while, he sighed, stood up and said: "It seems, today's ....."

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the southeast and shouted: "General, look! ”

I saw that an army in front was rushing towards this side, getting closer and closer, and the banner of the Ming army could already be faintly seen, and the guard general breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "Brothers, reinforcements have arrived!" ”

Cheers echoed over the Acropolis of Huai'an, "Woo! In order to buy critical time for the Tatars besieging the city, Allen personally led a thousand cavalry to rush towards the rushing Ming army.

The Tatars, like other nomads, pay attention to a high degree of mobility and flexibility, looking for the best fighter in the maneuver to hit the enemy with one blow, in the face of well-equipped Ming cavalry, they try to avoid confrontation with the Ming army, but this time Allen made a big mistake, in order to be able to take the Huai'an Acropolis as soon as possible, except for a thousand guards and soldiers, the rest of the people pressed up, if not, he did not put the attacking more than 1,000 Ming cavalry in his eyes.

However, Jia Jue seized this opportunity and personally led a thousand cavalry to cover the kill, and behind him was a mighty army of 6,000 young people waiting to work.

The earth shook, the two sides of the men and horses approached closer and closer, from two or three miles, and finally to two or three hundred steps, soon the two sides entered the killing range of the bow and arrow, both sides have shot out the arrows in their hands, the cavalry under the command of Jia Jue has not been trained for a long time, and the cavalry is not as good as the Tatars, but thanks to the protection of the armor, only dozens of people were shot off the horse in this round of attacks, and the Tatars on the opposite side did not have such good luck, although it was Allen's guards, the armor rate was not very high, and less than four hundred people in a thousand people were wearing armor, The rest have only one helmet.

Nearly a thousand arrows were fired, screams rang out, and nearly 100 people were shot off their horses, which was because the cavalry of the Ruishi battalion was not good at riding and shooting, otherwise at least three or four hundred people would be taken away in this round.

Soon, the two cavalry rushed together, Jia Jue took the lead, he waved the horse chopping knife, left and right, the knife was fierce, invincible, the Tatar cavalry severed head and body rolled to the ground, the cruel and fierce battle was opened on the battlefield about a mile wide, and the two armies fought together.

The defenders on the city wall looked at the tragic battle scene, their hearts were boiling, the guards picked up the drumsticks, personally beat the drums to cheer, and the rumbling drums sounded....

Jia Jue held the sword in his hand like a god descending to earth, where he passed, the head rolled down, many Tatar cavalry and people with horses split in half, Jia Jue led a thousand cavalry all the way to kill, the momentum was like a devastating wither, killing the Tatar head rolling to the ground, blood flowed like a river, Allen's face was pale, he did not expect this Ming army to be so strong, at this time, Jia Jue rushed over, and split the already frightened Allen with the horse into two halves, blood splashed, and the rest of the Tatars were discouraged, and they scattered and fled under the drive of the Ming cavalry.

The field is full of fleeing Tatar remnants, they scrambled to the Tatar tired soldiers who had just retreated, two or three miles in the blink of an eye, the Tatars who had just retreated from the siege had not had time to take a breath before they were defeated by the rout and the attacking Ming army, they had been physically and mentally exhausted at the moment after most of the high-intensity siege battle, under such a fierce attack of the Ming cavalry, they could only retreat, after a stick of incense, the fire soldiers who came from the side launched a more fierce surprise attack on the Tatars in defeat, Under the fire of 3,000 musketeers, the Tatars were finally unable to return to the sky, the army collapsed, and the Tatars began to scatter and flee, but they could not escape the pursuit of the Ming army.

At the end of a great war, the remnants of the sun were like blood, and the vast plains outside the Huai'an Acropolis were full of layers of corpses, these dead corpses were of the Ming army, but more of them were Tatars, as well as all kinds of dead horse stumps, broken flag weapons, etc., and the corpses were soaked in blood.