Chapter 56: The Battle of the Sanggan River

Here, it is easy to attack in either direction, and it is easy to retreat.

Beijing's westward expansion can be bypassed. But with such an army here, who would dare to go west?

It must be known that there is a large force of cavalry in Geng Bingwen's army. The cavalry attack was very fast. The attack range is also wide. If you are not careful, Geng Bingwen's cavalry will attack Datong City, and it is not an impossible thing.

And Qu Neng can win Datong City through Neiying, but do you know that Geng Bingwen can't be reproduced?

This place had to be pulled.

At this moment the Northern Army began to attack.

Geng Bingwen sat in the center and watched the Northern Army's infantry slowly approach from three directions.

Geng Bingwen ordered, "Trap the car."

With an order from Geng Bingwen.

All the soldiers went into action, they unloaded the wheels of the carriage, pressed the carriage directly to the ground, and then filled the carriage with earth, so that the weight of the carriage pressed on the ground, and it became a wall.

Even heavy artillery is difficult to penetrate.

This is also the standard that Geng Bingwen is prepared to adhere to. Without him, once you do that, it's hard to move again.

Immediately, the drums sounded, and the Northern Army attacked in a horizontal formation, with countless firearms and artillery bombardment. The two sides exchanged fierce fire. Played all morning. Qu Neng withdrew his troops.

It's too hard without him.

The Northern Army suffered many casualties, but there was little progress.

The power of the rifle cannon is already good, but the bombardment on the vehicle formation, there is almost no reaction, even if the infantry cannon bombards one place several times in a row, it only destroys the vehicle, not overturns. When the sand flows out of the vehicle.

Qu Neng knew that he couldn't beat it.

Qu Neng could only wait for the heavy artillery.

Heavy artillery came slowly.

Fortunately, there is a Sangan River. If there is no river transportation, it is normal to have transportation in place in one or two months.

But under heavy artillery bombardment, there is nothing to be done.

Heavy artillery is very powerful. But the number is scarce.

It's not that the Ming didn't have heavy artillery. And the production volume is insufficient. When I made a production plan, I didn't think about how much to produce, after all, what the army really needs is infantry artillery, even if Beijing produces a lot of artillery, artillery production capacity is also very precious, and before again, many people think that the number of artillery is enough.

There is no need to continue production and increase the transportation capacity, the first batch of artillery is only a few.

But the artillery bombardment of the car formation, of course, is very powerful. A gap can be made with almost a few shots, but alas, most of the artillery in this era is direct fire. It's hard to get past the back of the car formation, and the biggest advantage of the car formation is agility. Almost immediately after the heavy artillery bombardment made a gap, someone replaced it with a new vehicle.

And so it goes, layer upon layer.

Even if the artillery is bombarded, it will take a certain amount of time.

However, Qu Neng did not fight with artillery alone. He also used many methods, such as night raids, and even thought of diverting water from the Sanggan River to irrigate the camp, but who was on the other side, Geng Bingwen.

In defense, who is better than Geng Bingwen.

Qu Neng's methods were dissolved one by one.

This situation made Qu Neng have nothing to do. Look at the book

Qu Neng was extremely angry and changed his thinking. He thought a lot about it before, but now he only has one idea, and that is to take Geng Bingwen. Because time has been delayed, and now he has broken the jar.

In any case, winning Geng Bingwen is also a great feat, and it can also make up for one or two.

So, he ordered, and countless soldiers began to dig trenches. Layer after layer, Geng Bingwen's camp was surrounded.

In this way, it is impossible for Geng Bingwen's car formation to cross these trenches, after all, Geng Bingwen's car formation has no off-road ability at all, and it is impossible to climb over these trenches more and more.

Qu Neng said secretly, "I want to see what other means you have."

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Geng Bingwen actually has no means.

Geng Bingwen knew very well what this battle was

In a bitter battle, he did not have the advantage, but the monarch's order had to follow, and he had to attack to buy time for Shaanxi. That's why I have today's trip, but now, the two sides have been fighting for more than a month, and even after this battle, it is impossible for the northern army to directly attack Shaanxi.

In other words, he has been fighting for Shaanxi for three to four months.

He has done everything he can.

The rest of him had to consider the lives of his soldiers. He will keep them.

He summoned the generals below, and told them the current situation directly without saying anything. He said, "There is a limit to the amount of baggage that the army can bring, and now it has used two-thirds of it, and the rest can only last for a month. Within a month, we can't go back to Yanmen Pass, and I don't need to say what my fate will be. Now it's a battle for survival, and I need death squads to break through the camp of the Northern Army."

"Who wants to take the command."

Although Geng Bingwen said so, he looked at his son.

On the battlefield, it is the easiest place to shake people's hearts, Geng Bingwen does not love his son, but he knows that if he does not put his son in the most dangerous place, it will be difficult to stabilize people's hearts. When retreating, the people are not aligned, and it is needless to say what will happen.

Geng Rui also knows this.

Geng Rui took a deep breath and said, "The last general takes orders."

Geng Bingwen said: "Then this battle will be handed over to you, if you can't win this battle, I will behead you."

Geng Rui said, "The last general understands."

What Geng Bingwen said is true, if he can't win the first battle at the beginning, it is very likely that he won't be able to win the next battle, and everyone will die here, and at that time, it will be a good thing for him to kill his son first. After all, there is no need to die at the hands of the enemy.

However, Geng Bingwen naturally has a preference for his son.

It is impossible to send a son to die.

Therefore, the first battle is the most important battle, and it is also the battle of Geng Bingwen's blood.

The killer feature of this battle is none other than the Fire Horse Formation

This fire horse is not lit on the horse's tail, but there is a gunpowder bag on the horse's body. One man controls ten horses, then rushes over, ignites, and blasts a path open.

The hundreds of thousands of horses brought from Yanmen Pass are Geng Bingwen's biggest capital.

When he was ready to retreat, he had decided to abandon all the chariots, each with a horse, although these foot soldiers would not be cavalry when they rode on horseback. But in any case, in this way, the speed of action is much faster.

As long as a gap is opened, the army can quickly break away. So that the Northern Army could not catch up.

This is where the veteran's ruthlessness comes in. In the first battle, almost all the surplus war horses were thrown in one go.

Geng Rui took the lead as a death squad and rushed out in waves, so in the dark night, an earth-shattering explosion sounded.

Such a movement naturally let everyone know.

I have to say that this battle was beyond Qu Neng's expectations. Who would have thought that Geng Bingwen would retreat when he said that he would retreat, and use so many war horses as consumables. Before the horse bomb, the Northern Army could not react at all. Although the camp of the Northern Army is also very strong. But before the horse bombs, it is also possible to blow up the gap. Immediately came Geng Bingwen's cavalry. All rushed over.

In the darkness of the night, hand-to-hand combat. Cavalry had an advantage over foot soldiers.

A regiment of the Northern Army collapsed, and the North forced a gap,

After that, Geng Bingwen's department immediately fled.

By the time the Northern Army cleaned up the situation, it was already dawn the next day.

Qu Neng stood in the sky above the camp with a cold face, looking at the entire camp, it was very miserable, the corpses of countless people and horses, and all kinds of gunsmoke and blood that did not disperse. But Qu Neng was furious. If Geng Bingwen escaped, he would have fought a complete defeat, he didn't know how to explain to Beijing and the palace, his defeat was not only his own defeat, but also a defeat in the palace.

This is something he can never forgive himself. What's more, he can't give himself an account.

He never felt that he was inferior to Geng Bingwen. feels that Geng Bingwen is just a veteran, a turtle. even put on a turtle formation, he managed to take Geng Bingwen again, but the result was so ruthless to himself.

He simply couldn't forgive himself.

He gritted his teeth and ordered, "So the cavalry all went south, caught up with Geng Bingwen, and killed him. If you can't, I'll kill you."

"Yes," the countless cavalry shouted.