Chapter 461: Geshu Brings a Knife at Night
"Put!"
"Peng Peng Peng—"
"Put!"
"Bang Bang Bang-"
At 23:30 on the 19th day of the 11th month of the Apocalypse, when the time was about to reach the 20th, the sound of gunfire continued to sound in front of the Beishan Fort battlefield.
The corpses had covered the wide plains, but there was still a steady stream of people stepping over the corpses' backs.
Cao Wenzhao could no longer be alone in the stone fort, so he stood in the trench with his entourage and soldiers, and he himself also held a rifle and shot.
Twelve hundred gunners operated four hundred guns, wiping them with wet rags, and even if it would reduce the life of the guns, they couldn't care about it anymore.
The Ming soldiers in the firelight had no chance to rest, and the two thousand riflemen in charge of the gun platoon only knew how to numbly pull the trigger on the heads of the people moving in the night, while the other three or four thousand riflemen and riflemen squatting in the trench kept reloading for them.
The lead bullets in the chambers of the Ming army's guns were fired at a rate of once every ten seconds, and each round of guns could knock down hundreds of healthy women.
"Peng—"
Suddenly, the fireworks in the rear finally went off again, but when the fireworks bloomed, bringing a touch of light to the land, what the Ming army saw was tens of thousands of women and children pushing the shield cart.
Among the women and children, they could also see many hidden Mongolian rangers and eight-banner horse infantry.
More than 500 shield carts were extremely heavy, and after learning the lessons of the day, Huang Taiji made the partition thicker, and the weight of the shield carts also soared to 16,700 catties.
The heavy shield cart needed more than a dozen healthy women to push, and it only took twenty or thirty steps a minute, which was very slow.
Naturally, just 500 shield carts could not cover the figure of these tens of thousands of healthy women, so when they entered the distance of 100 paces, the Ming army infantry began to constantly line up guns to greet them.
The Rifle can hit targets at a distance of 100 paces, but cannot pierce the stomach.
However, the current healthy women do not have any stomachs, most of them are women and children dressed in cotton clothes and holding heavy shields to move forward step by step.
Holding a shield of more than forty catties to move, this is undoubtedly very physically exhausting, so the women and children of the Jin Army continue to move in relays, and they can also feel the force of the Ming army's gun bullets on the shield.
As they got closer, the women without shields were shot and fell to the ground, and the women with shields and shields were still advancing.
Behind them, the heavy infantry of the Jin Army, also holding shields, were also waiting, and after the heavy infantry, the number of bird gunners was also waiting.
At this point, there is no need to guess too much about which direction the Jin army will break through.
"Do you really want to break through here? I'm afraid it's a bloody battle......"
"This road is the widest, and there are the most people who can walk, so you can only take this road......"
On horseback in the dark night, Huang Taiji conversed with Zilharang, followed by Azig, Dolgon, Duoduo and others.
"Why don't you take Fort Westhill? There are so many people here! ”
Mang Gurtai's face was very unsightly, but Huang Taiji glanced at him in the dark, although he couldn't see Mang Gurtai's expression clearly, he still frowned and said, "There is no Divine Weapon Fire Gun here. ”
Huang Taiji wants to break through through Beishan Fort, even if there are the most Ming troops here and the most difficult, he still has to take this road to break through.
Because from the information he had during the day, breaking through from here was the most likely, and it was also the road that could take the most people away.
What's more, Huang Taiji has seen during the day that there are no riflemen in Beishan Fort.
However, Huang Taiji didn't know that at dusk, Shen Cewei had 1,600 remaining troops to assemble, and Cao Wenzhao left 600 people in Beishan Fort.
It's just that I'm afraid that even if he knows, he won't regret it, because the wide Beishanbao River Valley is the only choice for the Jin army to break through with the whole system.
Wuli Fort is too narrow, there is a stone fort after Xishan Fort, and Dongshan Fort deviates from the direction, and only Beishan Fort can attack.
Despite the presence of tens of thousands of Ming troops stationed here, he still chose to attack, and his attack has already begun to bear fruit......
"Kill!"
"Kill them!"
When the shield cart hit the barbed wire fence and the horse rejection and sheep horn walls, with a dull sound, the women of the Jin army, who had no armor and stomach, began to chop the barbed wire with simple iron knives.
Sparks splashed everywhere, but the barbed wire was not so easy to solve, and often the healthy women who rushed to the front of the battle swung their knives and slashed three or four times, and they would be killed by the lead bullets of the Ming army's infantry guns.
The women kept pouring up and down, and gradually, their bodies began to pile up in front of the barbed wire.
Seeing this, some of the heavy infantry climbed over the barbed wire fence by stepping on the corpses, but before they could reach the sheep's horn wall, they stepped into the air and fell directly into the trench behind the barbed wire.
The wooden thorns buried in the trench instantly seriously injured them, and for a while, whether they were the heavy infantry of the Jin Army or the healthy women who tried to climb over the barbed wire, they all fell headlong into the trench.
The eight-foot-deep trench wasn't that deep, but even so, it cost hundreds of lives.
"Beep-"
The shrill whistle of the Jin army sounded, and the hoplites of the Jin army, who could not bear to be slaughtered in front of the women, began to retreat, and the women and children who could not understand the whistle also pushed the shield carts, breaking the crumbling barbed wire.
On the two-mile-wide position, it was cut off by an iron knife for a while, and then there were no less than ten breakthroughs after being hit by the shield car.
The dark night made the Jin army women not know their own casualties, and they could only see seven or eight clansmen around them.
The people in the back kept pouring in, which gave the surviving women in front the illusion that they didn't sacrifice too many people.
"Peng Peng Peng—"
The roaring cannons and fireworks rang out and lit up at the same time, and in an instant, the corpses everywhere were seen by Cao Wenzhao in the trench, but the group of healthy women did not know it.
The 400 artillery pieces were divided into ten groups by Cao Wenzhao, and although each group only had 40 guns, they still fired a dense scatter of shells, covering the area of 150 paces in front of the formation.
The bullets shot out like flying locusts, like rice harvested by a sickle in the autumn harvest, and fell in rows.
The healthy women who broke through from the barbed wire were knocked down one after another, and Cao Wenzhao was not happy, because he knew very well that in the face of the healthy women who were several times the number of the Ming army, they might not be able to break through successfully, but they could definitely "destroy" the fortifications of the Ming army.
This destruction did not refer to destruction by force, but under the attack of the healthy woman, the shield cart began to tear down the rows of sheep's horn walls and reject the horses, and rolled down into the trench with barbed wire, revealing only three or four feet.
Although there were still three or four feet, as the healthy women were constantly shot and killed by the platoon, their bodies gradually pressed down the barbed wire.
As the Ming army killed more and more healthy women, the front fortifications of the Ming army disappeared and were replaced by a "corpse wall".
Cao Wenzhao didn't know what ecstasy soup Huang Taiji poured into the healthy women of the Jin Kingdom, in short, at this moment, they were one after another, regardless of the dead and wounded, they wanted to break through the Ming army's defense line and grab the trench.
"Rifle hands!"
Cao Wenzhao shouted to the riflemen on the left and right and blew the whistle.
"Beep...... Beep-"
Two short whistles sounded from Cao Wenzhao's mouth, and then hundreds of household officials blew wooden whistles one after another.
Hearing the whistle, the Shencewei riflemen, who had been helping the rifle men reload a second ago, grabbed their rifles one after another, lay down on the trench, and began to fight back with the rifle men.
On the two-mile-long position, there were only 3,200 men and horses counterattacking, and only 3,800 riflemen including 600.
However, it was these 600 riflemen who joined the battle that the situation in front of Beishan Fort and in danger immediately changed.
When the "bang, bang" rifle sounded, all the Jin troops were stunned, even Huang Taiji and others, who were already confident in the Jin army.
"Isn't this firecracker team in Xishan Fort and Wuli Fort?! How could there be here?! ”
Huang Taiji scolded, but no one could answer his question.
At present, the Jin army has been fighting for half an hour, and even the forward barbed wire positions of the Ming army have been breached, and it would be a fool to withdraw now.
Therefore, no matter how much Huang Taiji scolded, he still did not say the words of withdrawing the troops, but instructed Zilharang and Azig on the left and right:
"The healthy woman will continue to attack, and then notify all the horse infantry to withdraw and prepare to charge with the Mongolian Eight Banners!"
"Yes!"
The barbed wire fortifications were covered by corpses, and the cavalry and horse infantry were no longer restricted, and nearly 20,000 cavalry and horse infantry on war horses would become the killer weapon of the Jin army to destroy the Beishan Fort position.
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji's palms were sweating, and he was faintly uneasy, as if he was worried that the Ming army still had some killer weapons waiting for him.
"Peng Peng Peng—"
When the dense sound of rifles and flying bullets began to harvest the golden soldiers, the forty artillery pieces of the relay also roared.
At this moment, all the Jin Junjian women only saw a flash of dark red firelight, and then they felt as if their bodies had been hit with a red-hot hammer.
The sudden power was indescribable, they only felt that the internal organs and all the bones in their bodies seemed to be beating, but the strange thing was that they didn't feel any pain at all, they just felt that the whole person had no strength.
Once again, artillery played a decisive role, and hundreds of healthy women were harvested in an instant and fell on the cold battlefield of Beishan Fort.
However, I don't know if there are too many of them, or if the shells and bullets of the Ming army can't completely eliminate them, in short, there is always a steady stream of healthy women rushing into battle in the future.
They seemed to have risen from the ashes, so tenacious that for a moment they would desperately rush to a place less than ten paces away from the Ming trench.
The artillery and rifles and rifles of the Ming army continued to fire in a row, scattering bullets to their left and right, bullets constantly firing, and under the strong fire of the Ming army, they fell in rows and rushed up in rows.
The war was not over yet, but the Ming army was already strewn with corpses in front of the position.
When the fireworks are lit up as flares, there are dense corpses and healthy women in front of the position.
In the war of extermination, if you don't go to the battlefield, you will die, and if you go to the battlefield, you will die, so it is better to die on the battlefield, in case the army can break through, their children can at least leave with the Great Khan.
With this thought, the Jin army women kept pouring up, and at the same time, Cao Wenzhao also saw the Jin army cavalry riding on horseback in the distance and rushing towards the Ming army's position in the fireworks.
"Beep-"
"The Jin army has charged!"
The voices of some sharp-eyed soldiers sounded in the trench, and from that voice and tone, Cao Wenzhao heard a trace of fear.
"Don't panic! Although the cavalry is sharp, it has to get by! ”
Cao Wenzhao tried to pacify the soldiers in the trench, but his pacification was useless, and in the face of the cavalry without barbed wire, the Ming soldiers began to scramble.
The reloading speed of the infantry gun suddenly slowed down, and the frequency of firing began to decrease, and Cao Wenzhao had no choice but to wave the command flag towards Beishan Fort.
He stood by the campfire, and the moment he waved the banner was seen by the generals at the head of the city.
"Let Xiao Cao's general soldiers support!"
The Qianhu official shouted at the Ming army on the arrow tower, and the little flag officer in charge of the arrow tower saw this, and immediately hung a string of fireworks on the huge loss of the crossbow on the bed of the arrow tower, igniting its fuse.
As others swung the gavel and smashed it down, a huge loss shot into the air in an instant, and at the moment when the lead burned out, a fire lit up over the battlefield.
"Boom—"
After the firelight was lit, a dull explosion sounded, which made Cao Bianjiao, who had been waiting for the news, turn around instantly:
"All on board!"
"Yes...... General, you haven't said where to fight......" Qianhu officials were stunned when they heard this, but Cao Bianjiao glanced at the iron cavalry of the Ming army with a dark face:
"If you don't have a goal, you just have to follow me down and kill!"
After that, Cao Bianjiao clamped the belly of the horse and began to build momentum with hundreds of Ganying cavalry following him.
He did not rush directly down the mountain, but ran up the mountain with the cavalry of the Dogan battalion, throwing the torch in his hand.
These torches lit piles of bonfires on the mountain, and the burning bonfires also attracted the attention of Huang Taiji and other high-ranking officials of the Jin Kingdom.
"Cao Bianjiao is just building momentum, there are only two or three thousand riders around him, so don't be nervous."
Huang Taiji spoke first to calm people's hearts, and then said: "The two yellow flag birds are ready to form a formation, take advantage of the darkness of the night to strike in three stages, and eat all the cavalry of the Ming army!" ”
"Yes!" When Zilharang heard this, he hurriedly rode his horse to command the bird gunners of the two yellow flags.
Cao Bianjiao was still building momentum, but Huang Taiji saw through his intentions at a glance and didn't care about him at all, but continued to focus on the frontal battlefield.
On the frontal battlefield, the first to rush to the battlefield and launch an assault were the horse infantry of Jianzhou, who were equipped with rifles and bird guns in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming and Jin armies who died in the battle yesterday.
Although they were not very skilled, they relied on their horses to hide in the crowd and shoot, but this did little damage to the Ming army, and few were shot.
Seeing that there was no damage, they reloaded and rushed towards the Ming position, but ran away after firing a shot after approaching the trench position.
Due to the rush of Jin Guojian's women to the battlefield, the horse infantry could not form a formation, and they were scattered for a while, and the firing distance was also different, which did not cause any losses to the Ming army, but fortunately, their own losses were not large.
It's just that at this time, the Mongolian archers also arrived at the battlefield, and after they arrived on the battlefield in the tens of thousands, the first thing they did was to stretch their bows and arrows, preparing to suppress the Ming army with arrow rain firepower.
"Rifles shoot the northern captives, and the rifles hit the healthy women!"
Cao Wenzhao saw the Mongolian cavalry arriving at the battlefield at the moment when the fireworks exploded, and hurriedly began to give orders to the six hundred riflemen of the Shen Ce Guard.
"Put!"
"Bang bang bang-"
For a time, arrows rained down like bullets.
The Ming army's lead bullets and bullets were constantly fired, and the arrow rain of the Mongol rangers also hit in waves.
Although the power of the arrows thrown by the stationed horse is not large, the coverage of the arrow rain is positive, and although the Ming army has a stomach, it is still necessary to guard against being shot by the arrow in the palm and face.
"Beep-"
"The rangers continue to shoot arrows to suppress, and the horse infantry is ready to rush up and drive the Ming army out of the trenches!"
While the Ming army was hunched over and covered their hands and faces with their back armor, they reloaded and shot in the protected place, so that the frequency of firing began to decline.
When Huang Taiji saw this scene, he keenly sensed that this was an opportunity, so he blew the wooden whistle.
Under the sound of his wooden whistle, the troops galloped to the battlefield, and then conveyed Huang Taiji's military order, and the more than 6,000 horse infantry of the front army immediately rushed to the Ming army's position in the rain of arrows.
"Woo-woo-"
Greeted by trumpets and whistles, the horse infantry suddenly gathered on the battlefield, and then concentrated on the trenches where the Ming army was stationed.
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Under the cover of the rain of arrows of the Mongolian archers, the Jin army took advantage of the exhaustion of the Ming army's firepower and charged, Cao Wenzhao watched this scene, he knew very well in his heart that once the six thousand horse infantry poured into the trench, the advantage of the Ming army was gone, so he could only put his hope on artillery.
"Peng Peng Peng—"
The artillery rang out again, and in the face of the surging horse infantry, scattered bullets swept through, and for a time the horse infantry of the Jin Army turned on their backs.
It's just that 7,000 people against 50,000 or 60,000 people in the plain valley can't do it with manpower after all, so although the Jin army's horse infantry was contained, the Jiannu broke through successfully.
They rushed into the trench like dumplings, Cao Wenzhao slashed several people with a knife, and hurriedly blew a wooden whistle:
"Foot Men cover the Riflemen! Change the short soldiers! ”
His shouts were insignificant on the two-mile-long defensive line, but fortunately he had made all the military orders passed before the battle.
For a while, the drums on the stone fort were beaten, and the drums of "Dong Dong Dong" began to fill the battlefield, and more than 4,000 foot men abandoned their foot guns, pulled out the short hammer and long knife at their waists, and began to slash and kill the group of healthy women who poured into the trench.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the Ming army, a healthy woman without a stomach is just a lamb to be slaughtered.
In just a dozen seconds, hundreds of healthy women who poured into the trench were killed, and at the same time, the riflemen were also actively shooting at the Jin Army's horse infantry.
However, the shortcomings of insufficient manpower have been exposed, Huang Taiji saw that the Ming army in the trench was in chaos, and immediately grabbed the handle of his sword, and drew his knife with a "rub":
"Charge the whole army!"
The Ming army's position is in chaos, and charging at this time will undoubtedly allow the army to win.
Huang Taiji took the lead in the charge, and when Azig saw it, he hurriedly ordered the Tang cavalry beside him:
"Inform all departments to break through to Beishan Fort, and only need to leave a small number of men and horses to contain the Ming army from all walks of life!"
"Yes!"
Hearing the order to break through, Jin Juntang trembled excitedly and hurriedly ran towards the rest of the troops.
The headquarters of Huangtaiji is only ten miles away from the departments, and the nearest is only five or six miles.
For the Tang Rider who doesn't want to run up, this distance is just the time of a cup of tea.
The Jin army's breakthrough was about to succeed, and everyone who saw the hope was excited.
The Mongol rangers who had been ordered at the front no longer threw arrows, but changed their riding bows and rushed towards the Ming position.
For a time, 20,000 Jin troops on horseback flocked to the trenches, and when the Ming army was in chaos, they clashed with the Ming army at close range by shooting arrows and facing each other, or by short-range encounters.
"Finally ......" Huang Taiji looked at the battlefield and breathed a sigh of relief.
It was only when he looked at the 30,000 healthy women before the war that he realized that there were less than 10,000 healthy women left......
"It's all worth it." Looking at the dangerous trench position of the Ming army, he led his troops to rush to the front line of Huangtai Jilema, and at the same time gritted his teeth.
"Kill!"
The shouts of killing came from the side and rear, and Huang Taiji didn't have to think much to know that it was Cao Bianjiao who led the cavalry down from the mountain.
However, the defeat of Cao Wenzhao's department has been decided, and no matter how brave Cao Bianjiao is, he is powerless to turn the tide of the battle.
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji touched his waist, thought of the stone bullet of the Ming army back then, and thought of the killed Abatai, his face instantly gloomy.
"If you kill me Abatai, then I will kill two generals!" His words seemed to be heard by Zhu Youzhen, and in the next second, he also ordered the left and right people according to his thoughts:
"Let Zilharang kill Cao Bianjiao, tell Mang Gurtai and Azig, kill Cao Wenzhao!"
"Yes!" When Dolgon and others heard this, they immediately ordered someone to give an order, and at this time, nearly a quarter of the Ming army had died in the trenches.
Although the war was still scorching, the defeat of the Ming army had been revealed, and the hope of the Jin army to break through was gradually magnifying.
At this critical moment, the Tang cavalry sent out by Jierharang also carried the news to Dai Shan and Yue Tuo who attacked Xishan Fort, Fan Wencheng and Li Yongfang who attacked Wuli Fort, and Fan Wenyu and Liu Aita who were fighting with more than 10,000 iron cavalry of the Ming army......
"Breakthrough successful?"
When Tang Qi came with the news, Liu Aita felt nervous, and Fan Wenhuan next to him was ecstatic.
"The breakthrough is successful, let's withdraw!"
Fan Wenyu laughed excitedly, and his disgusting appearance made Liu Aita almost unable to pull out a knife and cut him.
Liu Aita resisted this impulse, but laughed along, then looked around, and then said:
"The Great Khan asked people to stay behind and break off, so let's do it, you take people to support the Great Khan first, and I will take my headquarters to break off."
"Uh......" Fan Wenhuan was a little moved, but when he thought that Liu Aita had only 2,400 people in his headquarters, he instantly became uneasy.
If Liu Aita is defeated, then Yulin, Lu Long, and Tiance, who are tens of thousands of iron riders, will be able to directly insert a big golden knife from behind.
When the time comes, the women and children will be in turmoil, and they may flee to Beishan Fort for their lives and disrupt the Jin army's own position.
Fan Wenyu was a little uneasy, but when he thought that the time between Liu Aita and Nurhachi was the longest and earliest among all the Jin Guohan generals, he was relieved, and he could only nod and say:
"I'll leave a thousand soldiers and horses for you, and I'll take the surviving healthy women, you be careful."
"Good!" Liu Aita nodded, and then Fan Wenyu was really relieved to take the 1,600 soldiers and horses and more than 7,000 healthy women after he divided his troops towards Beishan Fort.
After he left, Liu Aita came to the left leader of his headquarters and whispered:
"You let people touch it at night, tell the generals of the Ming army of Yu Linwei, and wait for my news before doing it."
"Good!" The left leader's eyes lit up, and when he found the Jinyi Guard hidden in the army, he asked them to go in the dark to remind Yu Linwei.
Seeing that all kinds of things were arranged, Liu Aita looked at Beishan Fort, looked at the firelight in that direction, and his face couldn't help twitching.
He thought of the scene when he met Nurhachi in person, and Nurhachi said that he would protect all the people in Liaodong.
He thought of the picture of Nurhachi after the battle of recovering Liao, treating the Han people of Liaodong who had returned to him as consumables and dying of exhaustion.
As soon as he thought of this, his facial features were a little distorted, and the horizontal flesh on his face couldn't help shaking:
"Huang Taiji, it was your father and son who broke the appointment first, no wonder I ......"