Chapter 528: Night Battle
"Get out!"
Yuan Zongdi had begun to panic at this time, although Dang Shousu was not the most courageous in the Dashun army, but he must be relatively stable, but now he couldn't find the battle flag of Dang Shousu on the battlefield, so there was only one conclusion: Dang Shousu was dead!
At this time, Yuan Zongdi understood that the right camp was over, and his top priority now was to lead his troops out as soon as possible, only or could he have a future, and as for the property in the camp, he had to give up now.
27,000 horsemen followed behind Yuan Zongdi, rode out of the camp, followed by a large number of dead soldiers and firecrackers, those soldiers have completely no formation, that is, a group of stragglers, at this time I saw Yuan Zongdi's Daxu, saw the formation of the cavalry army, and involuntarily followed.
At this time, in the barracks, Xu Ming had already led the cavalry battalion soldiers to surround Liu Tichun's troops.
"Can't get out?"
Liu Tichun looked at the soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the New Army who kept riding his horses around and then shooting his own soldiers with bird guns, and his heart was filled with deep fear. And Liu Tichun only had more than 10,000 armor soldiers left, and all the dead soldiers had fled.
Among the more than 10,000 armor soldiers, there were only three or four thousand people with weapons, and almost none of them wore armor. Such soldiers and horses face the siege of more than 10,000 elite cavalry battalion soldiers, and the outcome can only be one.
Xu Ming looked at Liu Tichun, who was surrounded, laughed excitedly, and shouted: "Release!" Shoot the enemy and don't charge! ”
At this time, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion also found a new way of fighting, that is, using bird guns to shoot on horseback.
At this time, the officers and men of the cavalry battalion were divided into sentry units, and several sentry soldiers
Li rode his horse in front to shoot around Liu Tichun's department, and after shooting, he rode his horse and retreated, and replaced another group of cavalry battalion soldiers to step forward, and he rode his horse to retreat, and loaded the bird gun on the war horse.
The cavalry battalion is equipped with a different bird gun than the infantry battalion, the overall is relatively short, and it is not equipped with bayonets, which is more labor-saving to reload, and can be operated on a war horse.
Soon, under the blows of round after round, more than 10,000 people in Liu Tichun's department were killed and wounded, and more than 3,000 people were inevitably defeated, Xu Ming immediately ordered the whole army to charge, and tens of thousands of cavalry battalion soldiers rushed forward on horseback and began to harvest heads.
At this moment, three thousand thieves rushed from the north, Liu Tichun was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately gathered the soldiers and horses around him, and roared angrily: "Kill!" ”
Then Liu Tichun rode his horse and carried a gun, and wanted to rush out, but he was shot off his horse by two cavalry battalion soldiers, and the two cavalry battalion soldiers then picked up their spears and rushed into the crowd to kill the enemy.
And the 3,000 cavalry were also stopped by the 2,000 cavalry battalion soldiers at this time, and the two sides launched a cavalry hedge, and the battle was very fierce. However, when Liu Tichun's battle flag fell suddenly, the three thousand horsemen began to be in chaos, and then they were severely injured by the earth-shattering thunder thrown by the cavalry battalions on both wings, and the remaining horsemen fled north one after another.
In less than half an hour, Xu Ming led the soldiers of the cavalry battalion to clear the enemy troops in the camp, this simple camp was full of corpses, and the blood gathered into countless streams, gurgling into the Tuotuo River, dyeing the river water in the night into black ink.
"The whole battalion goes north, attack north!"
Then Xu Ming roared and led his troops to rush north, and more than 10,000 cavalry battalion soldiers rode out of the camp.
Rushed into the night to the north.
In the vast night, Yuan Zongdi led 27,000 horses to gallop wildly, gradually disconnected from the large number of routs behind, and the shouts from behind became farther and farther away, and finally became inaudible.
"Finally escaped!"
Yuan Zongdi's heart was relieved, and he was about to order to speed up, but a shocking scene suddenly appeared in front of him.
I saw that in the dark night ahead, countless "stars" suddenly appeared, and the dense light instantly illuminated the night, just like day!
In the light, a huge army appeared in front of Yuan Zongdi's eyes, and the distance between the two sides was only less than two miles, but Yuan Zongdi and the 27,000 horsemen couldn't hear a single sound, as if the huge army array in front of them was an illusion.
"It's Liu Yan!"
Yuan Zongdi saw Liu Yan's Daxu in the military formation, exclaimed, and ordered the whole army to accelerate the attack, trying to lead the army directly into the opposite military formation.
At this time, the army formation in front of it could be blocked by artillery and chariots, and even the horses and thistles could not be seen, and under the light of countless torches, the front of the new army was empty.
But just when Yuan Zongdi led the army to a place less than a mile, more than 100 cannon muzzles stretched out from the military formation, and it was the Huzun artillery commander of the new army artillery battalion.
Qian Jian stood in the middle of the military formation and shouted angrily: "Open the cannon!" ”
Rumble!
In an instant, the sky is dark, and the storm is blowing in an instant!
The close-range scattered bombardment swept down a large number of rogue horsemen in an instant, and the fierce firepower made these horsemen who fled all the way here full of fear, and many people subconsciously tightened the reins, and the impact speed of the army dropped in a blink of an eye.
At the same time, the front of the army was At least 30,000 of the new army's front battalion, rear battalion, and middle battalion were already lined up in four rows at this time, under the orders of Chen Xun, Wang Yue, and Shen Tuo almost in unison, they opened fire at the same time, and the fierce fire was even more earth-shattering than the shelling just now, at least more than 4,000 horsemen screamed and fell off their horses, including Yuan Zongdi, who led the army to charge!
"Put!"
The salvo of more than 30,000 birdmen continued, and the fierce fire filled the front of the new army with gunsmoke, and even in the night, you could see the thick smoke with the help of the firelight.
And the rogue horsemen who charged in front of the formation have been completely defeated, and many horsemen are scurrying around in front of the formation, as if they are headless flies, and for some reason, they are running around shouting, venting the fear in their hearts, until they are hit by the lead bullets shot by the birds.
"Put!"
Rumble!
At the same time, Qian Yan's roar continued, the new army artillery battalion Tiger Zun Cannon showed his might this time, such a close salvo bombardment, so that those gunners were very excited, and even the interval of the salvo was smaller than usual, as if it was a heartfelt blow.
After a few rounds of volleys, the cavalry on the battlefield could no longer see the formation of the charge, all that remained was the decisive charge of some brave men, and the vast majority of people were scurrying around on horseback.
In the new army, Liu Yan held a clairvoyant mirror and watched for a while, but when he used the clairvoyant mirror to observe the battlefield at night, he could only see a cloud of darkness, and he couldn't see the situation ahead at all.
Liu Yan only vaguely grasped the battlefield movements ahead through the continuous reports of the commanders of each battalion.
"Yuan Zongdi's battle flag can't be found on the battlefield?"
Liu Yan asked differently, thought for a moment, and then said
Dao: "Immediately order all battalions to launch a general attack, and at the same time, all battalions will start searching around at night to prevent Yuan Zongdi and other rogue generals from escaping from taking advantage of the chaos!" ”
"Yes!"
After receiving the order, Chen Xun, Wang Yue, and Shen Tuo in the front immediately ordered the whole battalion to put on bayonets, and threw earth-shattering thunder with swords and shields to open the way in front.
Those thieves were first blown up by the earth-shattering thunder, and after the people turned on their backs, they were stabbed to death one by one by tens of thousands of armored birds, and fell off their horses with long bayonets, and this battle was completely a massacre.
Subsequently, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, and Tian Zhenbei led the left battalion, the right battalion and the officers and men of the sixth battalion of the garrison to follow up, leaving only the artillery battalion and the personal guard battalion to guard the Chinese army.
"Soldiers, rush forward and kill all the thieves!"
In the rear camp formation, Lao Bai roared loudly, the sound was so loud that it spread widely even on the chaotic battlefield, and the surrounding soldiers looked sideways.
Next to him, Shen Wen, who was the flag chief, also frowned and glared at Lao Bai, as if complaining about why it was so noisy.
"All charge, charge!"
Shangguan gave an order, Lao Bai and Shen Wen also roared angrily, and led the soldiers under their respective commands to start running, and the large army array was like a stormy wave, instantly crashing into the rogue soldiers and horses in front, directly defeating the remaining rogue horses, and began to run backwards in embarrassment.
Shen Wen was still following the crowd at this time, but he just fired a few times, and before he could catch an enemy's blade, he saw the thieves in the distance riding away one after another, and finally disappeared into the night ahead, and couldn't help but say angrily: "What are you running? A school of soft-footed shrimp! ”
Immediately afterwards, Shen Wen's face
On the smile, I saw that the cavalry in front of me ran back in panic, and I saw a large number of soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army following behind, cutting melons and vegetables in front of the thieves.
Lao Bai on the side roared angrily: "These cavalrymen are really good at picking up cheap!" ”
The fierce battle under the cover of the night continued, the army of more than 100,000 troops in the right battalion of the thieves had collapsed, and the remaining fierce battle was only a one-sided massacre, bloody and without suspense.
In the early morning of the next day, Liu Yan sat on a dead horse tiredly, looking at the corpses all over the ground around him, as well as the heavy soldiers of the various battalions who were cleaning the battlefield, and his face showed an excited and joyful expression: This battle has been won!
Two successive attacks, successively annihilated the rear battalion and the right battalion of the thieves, and the thieves lost more than 300,000 troops.
"Pavilion Elder !"
At this time, although the battlefield had not yet been cleaned, the heads of various places had been basically cut down, and the casualties and results of each battalion had also been counted.
Miao Shao, Xu Ming, and Chen Xun came over laughing and sat on the ground beside Liu Yan.
"Why, didn't I tell you to hurry up and sleep for a while, why didn't you go to sleep yet?"
Chen Xun said with a smile: "Didn't the elder of the pavilion not sleep either." ”
Liu Yan laughed and said, "It seems that you are just like me, you are happy in your heart, and you can't sleep!" ”
The crowd laughed.
"How's the outcome of this battle?"
Chen Xun and Xu Ming both looked at Miao Shao, only to see Miao Shao take out a piece of paper and report the results of the battle to Liu Yanyu.
In this battle, the army raided the right camp of the thieves and killed Yuan Zongdi, the general of the right battalion of the thieves, Liu Tichun, the general of the right Guoyi, and the deputy mighty general Dang
Shousu, beheaded more than 83,600 ranks, captured more than 42,000 people, captured more than 3,000 guns of various kinds, and tens of thousands of armor. In addition, the property that Liu Yan ordered to abandon was also seized.
The 170,000 army of the right battalion of thieves led by Yuan Zongdi, after this battle, only more than 40,000 people were scattered, and this battalion of thieves was completely finished!
In this battle, 817 soldiers of the battalions of the New Army were killed and 355 were wounded.
Liu Yan's face also darkened a lot when he heard this, after two surprise battles, although the new army won a complete victory, but the new army and the battalions of the garrison army also paid a lot of price, more than 2,100 soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than 2,600 were wounded, and most of them were seriously wounded, and they are still being resettled in Xinle County.
Liu Yan said: "Our army is a mobile war, and the wounded who remain in Xinle County must be transported away as soon as possible, so that the battalions will be immediately rectified, and they will return to Xinle County after half an hour to station, and all the battalions will be released at night to strangle the routs and thieves around the army and cover up the movements of our army." ”
"After we return to Xinle County, we will immediately recruit people from the city, escort the heavy soldiers of the personal guard battalion, and transport more than 2,000 wounded soldiers to Jinan Fucheng, where they will be properly treated by Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong."
Miao Shao said worriedly: "Ge Lao, although there is no large number of thieves and horses intercepted between Xinle County and Jinan Fucheng, the road is far away, and most of the wounded soldiers are seriously wounded, and there will be many soldiers who can't hold on." ”
"Then send more medical officers to accompany you, and we must not leave the wounded to be placed on the battlefield, we are a sports war, and there is no way to properly protect the wounded
Once the thieves find out, they will not only know our movements, but also poison the wounded! ”
Miao Shao, Xu Ming, and Chen Xun sighed when they heard this.