Chapter 291: Ambush Battle
When Murong Mingyue and Xue Lun Ancestor were talking in Demon Sect Castle, the ten cavalry battalions of the left guard led by Mo Cong had already arrived at the distant Giant Spirit Pass. Because they didn't carry any heavy equipment and equipment, they marched all the way down earlier than the arrival of the Longguo army, Xu Shiqian and Tan Ying and other generals of the Northern Route Army were naturally very happy to see Zuo Wei coming, and after the two people converged, they talked about the military situation and exchanged pleasantries.
"The deputy commander of your left guard has changed so quickly, the year before last it was Commander Chen, last year it was Commander He, and this year it was Commander Mo, but no matter which commander it is, each has the ability to turn the tide. Tan Ying said with a smile.
"What Lord Tan said is exactly what I'm worried about, I have just been in charge of the left guard for a short time, and even the time I started to be a general is less than a year, many things need to be mentioned by the two adults, and I hope that the two adults will take care of me before I have a shallow knowledge and lack of experience, and I usually have more guidance and tolerance if I do anything bad. Mo Cong also said like Xu Shiqian and Tan Ying.
"Commander Mo said seriously, your two armies have always been cooperative, and they have cooperated very well every time, this time the left guard will definitely be able to cooperate happily with our Northern Route Army under the leadership of Commander Mo. Xu Shiqian said.
A few people greeted each other for a while, the battalions of the left guard had been set up one after another, and Mo Cong's deputy commander tent was still in the original place, quite quiet and undisturbed, walking around the tent, thinking of the past scenes about Murong Mingyue and Mo Min, Mo Cong felt a lot of emotion.
At noon that day, an urgent report came from the scouts that the advance of the Longguo army had approached the 200-mile range of Juling Pass, with about 50,000 people, and the follow-up troops were more than ten miles away from the forward, and the number was unknown. Mo Cong quickly discussed with Xu Hu, Lei Bao and others, and decided to seize the opportunity to fight an ambush battle.
"The enemy army has at least 200,000 soldiers and horses every time they come, and your left guard only has 100,000, so I'm afraid this battle will not be easy to fight, right? Xu Shiqian was opposed.
"Every time we come, the enemy arrives before us, and this time we finally seized the opportunity, and it would be a pity not to take the opportunity to fight an ambush. Mo Cong said.
Xu Hu, Lei Bao and others also said the same.
"But the enemy is only about a day's journey away from the Djinn Pass. There are no high mountains and dense forests in the grassland opposite the Giant Spirit Pass, how can we ambush us?" Tan Ying muttered.
"There are no high mountains and dense forests, there are still small forests and piles of rocks, and although the terrain of the grassland is generally gentle, it is not completely devoid of small hills and small soil slopes, and it is not a problem to use these terrain to fight an ambush war of forty or fifty thousand people, our main target is the enemy's forward, piggyback and destroy the enemy's siege equipment, which can not only thwart the enemy's sharp edge but also reduce the pressure on the later city defense. Mo Cong said.
"Okay, let's do it quickly. When the generals heard this, they all agreed.
From the afternoon of the same day to the next morning. Hundreds of thousands of troops of the Zuoweijia North Route Army quickly dug two gullies more than ten miles long at the entrance and exit of a wide area surrounded by small hills thirty miles north of Juling Pass, and the chasms were covered with thin, half-cracked stone slabs covering the soil and turf layers. This area is not the only way to the Giant Spirit Pass, you can also reach the Giant Spirit Pass by turning over the large and small mountain bags on both sides of the area, but because the heavy siege equipment and stone bullets and other bulky things of the Long Army are inconvenient to climb the mountain, so the general situation will send a forward to clear this area, and only after confirming the safety will those treasure flying stone vehicles and other siege equipment pass through, the Swiss army is fighting this kind of psychological warfare, through two ditches to the Long Army to pinch the head and tail, the Long Army's siege equipment trapped in this area. Then calmly clean up the head of the Long army and take the opportunity to destroy the siege equipment.
On the morning of the same day, the light and heavy cavalry of the Left Guard and some of the rubble troops of the North Route Army were ambushed at the designated places, and the direction and distance of the rubble were all adjusted properly in advance. It is guaranteed that more than a dozen waves of attacks can cover the entire ambush area.
In the morning of the same day, the scouts of the vanguard of the Long Army had already arrived at the ambush area, and they scattered in twos and threes to check the terrain and whether there were any traces of the ambush of the Swiss army, and after confirming that they were safe, they quickly reported the news with birds. Not much effort. The vanguard of the 50 Manlong Army came in a wide area, marching along the large area on both sides of the mountain and inside and outside the mountain pack, and the two wings of the vanguard of the Long Army spread extremely far away. From the ambush area to the width of more than ten miles outside the mountains on both sides of the ambush area, through such a clearance, the possibility of the Swiss army to ambush was basically eliminated.
At noon, the mighty Chinese army of Longguo finally arrived, and the siege equipment and heavy stone projectiles passed through the half-cracked thin stone slabs one after another, increasing the speed of the stone slab breaking again and again. For the sake of safety, when the Chinese army of Longguo passed through the ambush area, it also sent a large group of soldiers and horses to pass through the mountains on both sides, marching up and down at the same time, in case the Swiss army did anything in this area.
At this moment, the ground on the periphery of both sides of the mountain bag was turned over one by one, and a number of Swiss stone throwers appeared in some woods and rocky piles, and the stone throwers quickly corrected the direction and carried the stone bullets.
About half an hour later, the snake head of the Chinese army of the Long Kingdom had already passed through the ambush area of one or two hundred thousand people, and the snake tail of the Chinese army of the Long Kingdom was still waiting to pass outside the ambush area. The Long army was shocked, and Murong Duo hurriedly crossed the chasm and made a detour backwards, and at the same time ordered the rear army of the Chinese army to attack both sides of the mountain at the same time, and quickly joined forces with the front army. As soon as the order was issued, the stone bullets of the Swiss army had been whistling one by one, some directly smashed on the siege equipment of the Long army in the ambush area, making a clattering sound of wood breaking, and some of them flew and smashed on the heads of the Long army up and down the unobstructed mountain bag, and for a time the siege equipment such as the flying stone cart was smashed countless times, and the Long army suffered heavy casualties.
The flying stone whined and launched more than a dozen waves of attacks before it suddenly stopped, and the stone-throwing quickly disappeared into the hole and returned to safety. At this time, the front army of the Long Kingdom has begun to detour backwards along the chasm, but the chasm is very wide and deep and extends very long, and it will take a while to complete the detour.
"Hurry up and take down their rock-throwing position, beware of an ambush. Murong Duo, who was trapped in the middle area, hurriedly sent an order to let the Longjun forward turn passive into active, but at the same time, he had to be very careful.
The vanguard of the Long army immediately divided several troops and horses to deal with the rubble positions hidden under the slope in the southwest and northwest directions of the Swiss army, and they had just rushed out not far away, and immediately rushed to a tremor of the earth, and the heavy armored cavalry of the Swiss country was dispatched.
Rui and Long have been at war for hundreds of years, and they have suffered the hardships of the cavalry of the Long Kingdom, and the heavy armored cavalry of the Rui Kingdom came into being in this kind of suffering. The heavy cavalry is a type of troops, not moving like a copper wall, moving is a torrent of steel, destroying everything and destroying everything, the steel knife and feather arrows of the Longguo cavalry are basically no lethal in front of this kind of fully armed iron man and iron horse suit, and the unstoppable charge of the heavy cavalry can often crush several times or even dozens of times the Longguo army, and two or three heavy armored cavalry battalions can make the defensive front of the entire Longguo army fragmented in an afternoon.
Of course, the heavy armored cavalry is not invincible, and the heavy stone vehicles of the Long Kingdom can effectively destroy the charging line of the heavy armored cavalry by throwing stone bullets intensively, and even directly give a devastating blow, but the situation of today's Long Army is a bit special, and the flying stone vehicles that can be obtained have been destroyed, and the flying stone troops themselves are stuck in the quagmire and cannot extricate themselves, and it is absolutely impossible to restrain the charge of several battalions of heavy armored cavalry, so they can only think of other ways.
In the whole half of the afternoon, several heavy armored cavalry battalions of the left guard rampage, the front line of the Long Army was torn to pieces, many people were slashed and killed while rounding around the chasm, as soon as they appeared, they immediately encountered the bow and crossbow salvo of the giant crossbowmen of the North Route Army and several light armored cavalry battalions of the left guard, the giant crossbows whistled and feathered arrows, and the casualties were heavy in an instant, and what was even more tragic was that the heavy armored cavalry of the Rui Kingdom was still driving them behind the buttocks, and if they ran a little slower, they would be crushed by a torrent of steel and torn into pieces. Murong Duo was in danger, and commanded the middle army and the rear army to speed up and launch attacks on both sides of the encirclement, relieving the pressure on the circuitous front army and uniting their forces as soon as possible.
The two armies fought in this area of more than ten miles until the evening, the front army of the Long army, the middle army and the rear army gradually joined together, and the Swiss army also quickly changed from an offensive state to a retreating state, and the heavy armored cavalry retreated to the Juling Pass with lightning speed behind the front light armored cavalry. It is impossible for the army of Longguo to run with the cavalry of the Swiss army by pushing the flying stone cart and pushing the stone bullets, and they dare not rush over to face the Swiss army's change of formation tactics of pulling the heavy armored cavalry back on both sides to kill the back, so they have to cry helplessly at the back of the retreating Swiss army.
It was already night when the Swiss army withdrew to the Djinn Pass, and although it was only the first day of the war, there was jubilation in the Djinn Pass, as if they had achieved the final victory ahead of schedule. Today's ambush war only used 60,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, but achieved results that 100,000 troops may not be able to achieve, and in the first battle, the Long army suffered more than 40,000 casualties and destroyed hundreds of flying stone vehicles, while its own damage was only a few thousand, and many of the thousands of people were lightly wounded by heavy cavalry, and less than 1,000 people were really seriously injured and killed.
In the face of such a big victory, Xu Shiqian, the commander of the Northern Route Army, immediately smiled from ear to ear and wrote a battle report to the imperial court, while Tan Ying hurriedly contacted He Ming, Deng Yong and Chen Ruoping, asking them to seize the fighter plane and arrive quickly, and directly advance the decisive battle in one go. (To be continued......)