Chapter 328: Military Trumpet!
The appearance of Mo Lingjun with two thousand horsemen exceeded everyone's expectations, but the impact on the inside and outside of the city was completely different.
A mere 2,000 cavalry was not enough to overthrow the 400,000 Hebei rebels, nor could it change the overall situation, but it told Han Hong and the Xuanwu army that held on to Bianzhou, Guo Rong did not break his promise, did not give up Bianzhou, and did not give up Han Hong.
The strength of the enemy army is terrifying, but what is even more terrifying is that it is isolated and hopeless, but for the soldiers and civilians who hold on to Bianzhou City, it is like a shot in the arm.
For Han Hong, who took a huge risk to stay in Bianzhou City, Mo Lingjun's arrival was equivalent to a solid layer of insurance for Guo Rong's reputation, and with such insurance, Han Hong, who had no way out, dared to press everything he had on Guo Rong and on the victory of Datang.
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For the rebels who were besieging the city of Hebei, the cavalry that suddenly appeared under the city of Bianzhou made everyone from ordinary soldiers to military schools and generals confused, and no one knew who these guys were, where they came from, and what they were going to do......
What's even worse is that the Hebei rebels are composed of the three towns of Weibo, Chengde, and Lulong, and there is no commander who can make a final decision.
Fortunately in normal times, arming, vigilance, war preparation, and siege can still be discussed, but in the face of such an unexpected situation, the disadvantages of the lack of unified command are infinitely magnified.
From the beginning of Mo Lingjun's division to the breakthrough to the periphery of Bianzhou City, except for a brief stagnation in the siege, the more than 300,000 Hebei rebels under the entire Bianzhou City did not have any effective countermeasures and defensive measures.
The Hebei rebels reacted too slowly, but the flexible and decisive Mo Lingjun's reaction was not slow at all.
In line with the principle of taking advantage of his illness and asking for his life, Mo Lingjun did not hesitate to command the two thousand elites of the three cavalry battalions under his command to divide into two directions and rush towards the back of the rebel battle formations on the south and east sides.
A wave of charges directly crushed the rebel rear army, which was neither protected nor prepared, and burned some of the siege equipment such as catapults that were being used.
Before the front brigade of foot soldiers surrounded it, it suddenly turned around and killed the rebels in the camps south and east of Bianzhou City.
You must know that the total number of rebels crossing the river is 400,000, excluding the 30,000 or 40,000 who are on guard in several other directions, and the rebels under the city of Bianzhou are at least 350,000 at this time.
It was naturally impossible for a full 350,000 people to be crammed into one camp, so there were dozens of camps of different sizes and sizes distributed around Bianzhou City according to their different affiliations and functions, and Mo Lingjun's target was them.
On the way to turn, by the way, the civilians and auxiliaries who were transporting catapults, stone bullets and other supplies from the rear camp to the front were killed.
The time from the beginning of the battle to the present is not too long, nor is it too short, if the rebel non-commissioned officers and military schools are elite, then the camp gate should be closed to prevent the camp from being stormed when the cavalry is detected.
If the response is faster, it should even organize soldiers to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Mo Lingjun's cavalry, of course, the premise of this is that the military discipline is strict and clear.
However, among the rebels, not all military schools were elite, and the military discipline of the feudal army was even more corrupt, and the organization and system became a joke in this situation.
In the absence of organization and hierarchy, even elite soldiers cannot complete the armor within a few dozen breaths, let alone spontaneously line up to meet the enemy.
Therefore, under the sudden crisis, there are very few people who can adapt to change, and the rebel battalions are in chaos.
Then, the elite cavalry of the two thousand Changying Army fought in units of 100 people, holding blades and directly killing them from the wide open camp gates.
Horses, spears, and spears were constantly waving in the hands of the cavalry of the Changying Army, frantically harvesting the lives of the rebels in the rebel camp, and from time to time lighting fires to destroy some of the baggage and ordnance stored in the camp.
It was only at this time that the rebels of Wei Bo, Chengde, and Lulong began to systematically mobilize troops and horses, preparing to encircle and suppress these Changying Army cavalry that were raging wildly in their rear.
It's just that it is the cavalry of the Changying Army that is raging wildly in the rear of the rebels, and in the case that the opposing cavalry only wants to complete the attack and destruction, and does not want to fight head-on, it is obviously impossible to simply use infantry to catch up with these cavalry that have already blossomed.
To encircle and suppress this long British cavalry, foot soldiers can only be auxiliary, and only cavalry can be really useful.
The problem is that after the siege of Bianzhou, the main mode of combat was siege warfare, and the war horses could not go up the ladder, so the cavalry of the rebels was neither armored nor fed to the horses, so it can be said that there was no preparation for battle at all.
By the time the rebel cavalry put on light armor, took their weapons, and attacked in formation, nearly a quarter of an hour had passed before the battle began.
After discovering the traces of the rebel cavalry, Mo Lingjun did not feel a fight, and immediately ordered the heralds around him to blow the trumpet.
The trumpet of the Changying Army can represent dozens of orders for attack, detour, and reinforcement, but there is no retreat number!
Starting from the defenders of Xingqing Palace, the predecessor of the Changying Army, the foot soldiers of the Changying Army, who always carried the front line on the battlefield, insisted on and believed in fighting to the death and not retreating.
Cavalry and foot soldiers in the combat mode and battlefield role is completely different, interspersed, detour, breakthrough, retreat are the norm, naturally will not take the same tactics as the foot soldiers, although Guo Rong insisted on not setting a retreat number, but it does not mean that Mo Lingjun has no way.
For example, at this moment, what the herald soldiers around Mo Lingjun blew out was the most heart-wrenching and terrifying call for all the Changying Army, and even all the rabbits.
As the air flow entered the brass horn from the throat of the herald, the melodious and low sound of the military horn suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
Hearing the sound of the trumpet, the cavalry of the Changying Army, who were on the rise in the rebel camp, turned miserable one by one, and the painful memories of the emergency assembly suddenly came to mind.
After a few moments, all the cavalry completed their movements as fast as they could, and then gathered their ranks as fast as they could, and rushed at high speed in the direction from which the trumpet came.
When the emergency junction was heard, a small group of cavalry had just entered a camp full of baggage.
A cavalryman of the Changying Army used the horse lance in his hand to pick up a bucket of tung oil beside him, and another cavalryman next to him threw out the torch in his hand.
The two cavalrymen turned and left, but it wasn't going to stop because they were leaving.
The next moment the two turned around, a wooden barrel filled with tung oil landed in the air, and the barrel immediately shattered, and the entire barrel of tung oil burst out and splashed out, making the surrounding area two or three zhang soaked with tung oil.
The torch that was thrown fell on the tung oil on the ground and ignited it, and then the flames spread rapidly along the tung oil that covered the ground.
It's just that there are dozens of wooden barrels that are exactly the same as the broken wooden barrels in the area soaked in tung oil, and the flames quietly ignite the wooden barrels as they spread.
The two initiators followed the team and rushed out of the camp dozens of paces later.
"Boom! Boom"
One after another loud explosions reached everyone's ears, and the entire battlefield even came to a moment of stagnation.
After recovering from the state of shock and slight dizziness, he subconsciously looked back and saw that the camp that was fine dozens of breaths ago was now in flames, and the entire camp seemed to be burning.
Looking at the scene behind them, the two guys were stunned and looked at each other......
However, the two of them were stunned for a moment, and the angry scolding came from the side.
"Sun Guan and Han Xuan of the dog, what are you stunned about, hurry up and keep up with the team, this TM is an emergency assembly number, if you can't keep up with the team, be careful to go back and eat tight and military sticks!"
The military stick actually doesn't matter, anyway, these guys are rough and thick-skinned, but when they heard the word "closed", Sun Guan and Han Xuan trembled slightly, and the next moment the two of them concentrated and quickly followed the team.
The two of them just did something unintentionally, but as everyone knows, they broke into one of the three largest logistics camps where the rebels stored supplies near Bianzhou, and the entire camp was stacked with hundreds of barrels of tung oil and hundreds of thousands of grains and grass that the rebels painstakingly transported from Hebei.
The unintentional actions of the two people directly killed more than 20% of the siege equipment of the Hebei rebels, 50% of the tung oil, and nearly 40% of the grain and grass......
When the thousands of cavalry belonging to Wei Bo's army, the Chengde army, and the Lu Long army finally arrived at the logistics and baggage battalions in the rear, they saw the mess of the camp.
The air was filled with the smell of blood and the strong smell of tung oil, the various camps were covered with the corpses of the Hebei rebels, the raging flames could be seen everywhere, and the important baggage camp that was ignited by Sun Guan and Han Xuan was even more blazing, hundreds of thousands of loads of grain and grass, more than 100 barrels of tung oil, and a large number of ordnance, baggage, and siege equipment were burning.
In the dozen or so camps, there was everything, but there was no half of the cavalry of the Changying Army.
In fact, under the watchful eyes of more than 200,000 Hebei rebels and tens of thousands of Bianzhou soldiers and civilians, after completing the attack and destruction, the cavalry of the Changying Army had already flown away, and only the smoke and dust rolled up by thousands of war horses covered most of the sky.
A quarter of an hour later, the three commanders of the three towns, Wei Bo, Chengde, and Lulong, came to the camp that had collapsed after being ravaged by the Changying army.
Looking at the baggage camp that had been almost burned to the ground, Mr. Liu's henchman, Pei Mingren, the deputy envoy of Lu Longjiedu who led Lu Long's army south, and Pei Mingren, the envoy of Youzhou soldiers and horses, was instantly filled with anger.
The entire rebel army is divided into three families, and although they are allies, each family also has its own guards, and each family's defense and camp are relatively independent.
Among them, the west of Bianzhou City was mainly defended by the Chengde army, the south was mainly defended by Wei Bo's army, and the east was mainly where Lu Long's army was located.
The part attacked by Mo Lingjun this time was mainly the camp of Wei Bo and Lu Longjun, among which Lu Longjun suffered the heaviest losses.
The materials that were finally transported from Youzhou for thousands of miles were ignited by the raiding Changying Army before they could be regulated, and by the way, hundreds of thousands of grains and grass were burned.
In a fit of rage, Pei Mingren ordered that the 3,000 cavalry that had been dispatched by the Lu Long Army continued to pursue the Changying Army fleeing eastward along the billowing smoke and dust left by the cavalry of the Changying Army, and Pei Mingren transferred more than 30,000 Lu Long Army in one breath, and they would follow the footsteps of the cavalry to participate in the pursuit.
Watching the angry Pei Mingren give orders one after another, and watching Lu Longjun's soldiers and horses come out of the camp one after another and start to pursue, Zhang Shaozhang, the commander of Wei Bojun, and Zhong Xianjun, the commander of the Chengde Army, looked at each other.
Pei Mingren didn't say it explicitly, but it was a fact that Lu Longjun was the most seriously damaged among the three families, and both of them read dissatisfaction and doubts from Pei Mingren's order.
In this regard, the two are also helpless.
There is almost no need to guess the origin of this cavalry that is so desperate that it is against the sky, those barbarians in the grassland do not have the ability to prohibit this order, and the cavalry of the feudal town does not have such skillful and mellow combat skills, in their opinion, only the cavalry of the Changying Army who directly overthrew Li Shigu with Li Yuxue's night raid on Yunzhou.
However, shouldn't the Changying Army have already gone to Jiaodong to clean up Li Shidao, how could it suddenly appear under the city of Bianzhou, if the forbidden army that made them extremely afraid came, then everything needed to be adjusted.
You must know that it is always taboo to be attacked by the enemy on the belly and back!
Therefore, Pei Mingren, the commander of the Lu Long Army, did not invite them to participate in the pursuit, but the two also sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to follow the Lu Long Army advancing eastward, one to show their concerted efforts, and the other to protect the flank of the attacking Lu Long Army to prevent this part of the Lu Long Army from being surrounded or killed.
After sending troops and horses to pursue with Lu Longjun, Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun withdrew the soldiers and horses besieging the city, and turned to strengthen the defense to avoid the danger of being attacked by the cavalry again and the chrysanthemum in the rear being stabbed.
When Pei Mingren came back from his state of extreme anger, under the persuasion of the other two, the three veterans who had been in the army for many years sat down together again.
The forces belong to three countries, and the interests of each family are not exactly the same, and suspicion and mutual vigilance are unavoidable, and this will inevitably bring confusion in command, shirk responsibility, and reduce efficiency.
Now, however, the real problem has arisen, and in the face of a common crisis, the three managers can sit together calmly, and no one wants a second such situation, so they need to complete the consultation and planning in the shortest possible time, and make a plan.
On Bianzhou City, witnessing the entire process of Mo Lingjun leading his troops to attack, witnessing the raging fire, and witnessing the chaotic and chaotic rebel army, Han Hong's face was full of smiles.
For the surprise that Guo Rong sent to him, Han Hong said that he was very satisfied!