Chapter 340: Sentinel Battle
Yanzhou.
This is actually Xingcheng.
However, the original Yanzhou City was on Juehua Island or Peach Blossom Island, which was also built by the Han people captured by Hebei, and after His Majesty the Emperor of Liao gave Peach Blossom Island to Wang Yue as a private territory, in order to facilitate transportation between land and sea, Chizhan Hui built Yanzhou City on the shore.
Very small.
It's just two miles in circumference.
But now it's also where Ginjuko's camp is located.
He used Yanzhou as a base, pecked at each other with Chizhan Hui in the south, and occasionally engaged in some irrational behavior such as cross-sea expeditions to Peach Blossom Island, which was more than ten miles away, and then was beaten by the Chang Sheng army guarding the island and fled back. However, the latter did not dare to go ashore, after all, his subordinates were also a full 10,000 genuine Jurchen elites, so the three families were like three Erha who were torn apart from each other, confronting each other in this narrow corridor.
Neither Chi Zhanhui nor Chang Shengjun had any interest in taking the initiative to go north before the Great Army's Northern Expedition.
Although in reality they could, at least now after the coastal thaw, they can already ship to Jinzhou, neither has done so.
Then Han Kyung-min died.
He died a heroic death, except for 3,000 Liao troops guarding Chaya Mountain City, who broke through in a bloody battle, and the remaining 7,000 were all killed in the city.
Han Qingmin was in his own marshal mansion, covered in blood waiting for the Jurchens to arrive, and then detonated the last few barrels of gunpowder, and nearly a hundred Jurchen soldiers died together, after ten years of humiliating defeat, lost their huge empire that once dominated East Asia, these Liao people used their tragic ending for their former glory, and finally drew an end.
Although the Liao State is still there.
But the soul of this Liao country has been lost, and all that remains is a shell.
And they left only 60,000 of Muhan's 80,000 army.
However, most of the dead cards are miscellaneous cards.
Geng Shouzhong's Han army, Yelรผ Yujian's Khitan army, Xi Liumeng'an, Bohai people, and even some Goryeo, the real loss of Allah power is not very much, and Sticky Han will not let his Jurchen elite be cannon fodder, but he is indeed exhausted by this protracted bloody battle, so that after capturing Chaya Mountain City, he did not immediately go south to attack Hu Seng Mountain City.
And then he didn't have a chance......
"It's our turn now!"
Wang De, the commander of the First Army of the Changsheng Army, said excitedly on horseback with his sword.
His face is like a monster stitched in the style of a horror movie.
The original commander of the First Army was Gao Jie, but as a veteran general under Wang Yue, after Wang De came under Wang Yue, Gao Jie was promoted to the director of cavalry and did not participate in the Northern Expedition, but Wang De's airborne command was unanimously convinced by the first army.
The core officers of the First Army had all participated in the raid on Liaoyang.
They've all seen the ferocity of this stitching monster.
At this moment, in front of them is the 10,000 female Allah forces led by Yinshuke, and they have evolved to the Iron Floating Slaughter, this powerful army is lined up with its back to Yanzhou City, with two thousand Iron Floating Slaughter in the middle, eight thousand kidnappers and horses left and right, and Xingcheng River in front of them......
It is called Xingcheng, Xingcheng County, Yanzhou, but the whole Yanzhou is actually this one county, which is also the earliest origin of this name.
Yinshu also has no way to retreat, Sticky Han's army has not yet arrived, if they retreat, then it is equivalent to handing over the mountains behind them to the Changsheng army, Wang Yue used this mountainous area as a base to easily seal the southbound passage, and the meaning of Sticky Han's capture of Jinzhou is lost. If they block the advance of the Changsheng army and wait until the main force of Muhan arrives, then they can seal this mountainous area, and then concentrate on solving Yelu Ning behind, as for whether to fight Wang Yue or not, that depends on the situation.
In the end, they don't know the bottom of their hearts.
After all, they were still very clear about Wang Yue's combat effectiveness.
Sticky Han's original plan was actually to take advantage of the winter to quickly open Jinzhou and advance all the way to Yuguan, and even attack Zhang Ying's Lulong, as long as the opening of Yuguan was opened, then they could gain an absolute strategic advantage over Wang Yue, even if they did not attack Yanshan City, they could go south to the North China Plain.
But it's a pity that I played in Jinzhou for more than half a year.
Then the whole plan fell through.
Now he can only face Wang Yue hard, but the plan has been changed to block him from going north as much as possible, otherwise, Wang Yue will recover Jinzhou, and he should join the Ming army on both sides of the Liao River to fight Linhuang or Huining.
And now it is the battle between the respective fronts of the two armies.
"Command, how to fight?"
A general beside Wang De asked.
"What how? They were all cavalry, all mounted cavalry, of course, they rushed straight over, the cavalry brigade and I rushed to the middle, and the hussar brigade rushed left and right. โ
Wang De said.
He was still very direct.
Then his order was handed down.
However, at the same time as the order was delivered, the royal system could not wait to move forward.
Three thousand mounted horsemen followed him with spears with small pennants, one sentry for every two hundred men, four columns of horses, one horse's body width on the left and right, two horses' body length between the front and back, and each post about the same width. Fifteen small cavalry formations of 3,000 mounted cavalry formed four huge attack lines that stretched for nearly three miles, because the speed was fast and slow after all, in fact, the whole formation was wavy, and 3,000 small pennants of different colors hunted in the sky.
It's like a colorful streamer.
But the silver art on the other side didn't move.
He is actually a similar riding wall, the mounted cavalry is doing this, this is the inevitable choice to give full play to their impact advantage, two thousand iron floating slaughter under the city of Yanzhou, like a stretch of steel city wall.
Wang De continued to move forward.
Three thousand mounted cavalry controlled their horses, striding slowly through the open plain like a military parade.
In front of them was the beach of the Xingcheng River, a small river that changed greatly in the seasons, with a beach more than a mile wide, and although the river had begun to rise due to the melting of the snow and ice in the mountains, it was still able to wade through. The rocks and mud brought by the torrent on the river beach slowed down the mounted cavalry, even as if the infantry were on foot.
These guys riding on river meanders, wearing three-quarter armor, and carrying spears are too heavy.
They did not dare to accelerate until the final charge.
Seriously calculated, they are actually more than a mile of endurance, fierce and invincible at this distance, and the charge is unstoppable, but beyond this distance, they will directly wither.
The mounted cavalry are all second men.
Looking at this scene, the silversmith of the North Shore can show a smile.
It was clear that his opponent was too young.
Immediately after that, the flag beside him waved, and at the same time, the left and right wings of the bow and arrow crutch horses rushed out, quickly rushed down the river beach and attacked with bows and arrows.
At this time, the hussar brigade behind Wang De also began to move forward, but because the assault brigade was too wide, these cuirassiers, who had fallen behind because Wang De attacked too early, could not arrive in a short time. The mounted cavalry, who were maintaining a low speed on the river beach and did not dare to speed up, could only silently endure the falling arrows, and they and the war horses under their crotches were constantly shot while maintaining a dense formation.
They couldn't even fight back, although they actually had bows and arrows, but this time they were storming the cavalry, so the bows and arrows were left behind.
In the end, he could only be shot by the archers.
And this beach is too wide.
More than a mile wide, they had to walk for five minutes at their speed.
The archers and crutches were happily in front of them, barely carrying any weight on them, galloping on their horses, and then shooting them as if they were practicing archery, even rushing to shoot at them dozens of paces.
More and more assaults are being hit by arrows.
Just as they reached the center of the river and began to step into the river, some of the archers and horses even dismounted and stood on the opposite bank to shoot arrows at them, and the horsemen were almost crying, but thanks to the good quality of the armor on their bodies, most of these arrows bounced off, and even if they did not penetrate very deeply. By this time, however, their courage had finally run out, and one of the sentries suddenly turned around and fled backwards under the leadership of the sentry commander, but they were well trained to flee without disorder, and then more sentry began to turn around and retreat.
Wang De roared angrily, but he couldn't stop his subordinates from escaping.
In the end, he had no choice but to turn around.
Fortunately, the hussar brigade arrived at this time, and these cavalrymen simply fired a wave of three-eyed guns on their horses to cover the retreat of the turret brigade.
The silversmithing of the North Shore is even more brilliant.
But he didn't move.
The hussar brigade and the bow and arrow kidnappers and horses on the river beach shot at each other, and at the same time the Jurchen spear and kidnapping horses attacked, and the hussar brigade immediately retreated, and the flag waved beside Yinshuke, and the kidnapping horses immediately pursued, and the retreating hussar brigade continued to shoot arrows backwards, and the back crutches and horses also shot arrows, and the two sides were entangled like rookies pecking each other, until they hit the south bank of the Xingcheng River and even chased and continued to the south.
But the Trooper could only watch, because the previous attack had exhausted their horses, and they needed to rest and recover.
"This drama is real or fake!"
Beside Yinshuke, his own brother Maji looked at the reorganized Raider Brigade on the south bank and smiled.
Indeed, Wang De's acting skills can be called clumsy.
He obviously wanted to coax Yinshu to cross the river first, and the one-mile-wide river beach between the two armies was a trouble for both sides, because the mounted cavalry could not run during the passage of this river beach, otherwise they would not have the strength to charge after going ashore, but the mounted cavalry who could not run was not shot by the archers? In particular, the hussars of the victorious army all carried three-eyed guns, this armor-piercing was much stronger than the cavalry bow, and he pretended to run away, and led Yinshuke's Iron Float in pursuit, the latter was heavier than them, and when they were exhausted from running on the river beach, they were just waiting on the south bank to turn around and fight back.
"Young and self-righteous, the old man is over fifty years old, and he has been on the battlefield for more than ten years, and he still wants to play this kind of trick in front of me!"
Yinshuke touched his beard and sneered.
At this time, his kidnapping horse and the hussar brigade of the victorious army had been fighting farther and farther away, and they were out of sight.
"Bo Jin, look at the back!"
There was a sudden scream behind him.
Yinshuke hurriedly turned around, and then saw a flag waving desperately on the tower of Yanzhou City.
"There are enemy troops behind, how did they get there!"
He was stunned.
"Wang Yue's cavalry army is five brigades, right?
There are heavy armored assault brigades here, and only hussar brigades with upper body armor, so where are their two flying cavalry brigades that are said to be not wearing armor? โ
Magi said suddenly.