151 The Polose cavalry was defeated, and the three kings were captured and imprisoned
Although urged by everyone in unison, Polo still hesitated.
Seeing that Polo did not have the style of an 'iron marshal', the generals couldn't help frowning again and again, but they couldn't push too much.
Zhu Qiyu sat on top of the city and saw the movements of the Polo army clearly. After a few hundred Warat cavalry had tried to probe, the Polose army came to a standstill.
Many civil officials and nobles at the head of the city couldn't bear it anymore, and they couldn't help but sit up and look nervously at the city.
Seeing this, Zhu Qiyu didn't care, just waved his hand at the guards.
After receiving the instructions, the guards tore off the white cloth covering the front of the small Jingguan on the head of the city, completely exposing the entire Jingguan to the sight of the Polo army. Then the war drums were beaten at the head of the city, attracting the attention of the Polo army.
Originally, Polo was on the verge of ordering a temporary retreat, but before he could say anything, he heard the sound of war drums on the city.
Sixteen thousand Warat soldiers looked at the city in unison. Although it was not close, the heads of 4,200 people were piled together, and it was also the boss, and soon people reacted, this is the head of their comrades who were built into a Jingguan.
The whole army immediately became in an uproar, and the soldiers around Polo were filled with righteous indignation and asked for battle one after another, with an extremely resolute attitude.
Polo had already realized that something was wrong, and he still hesitated, but saw the soldiers draw their sabers in unison and began to prepare to charge.
Seeing this, Polo chuckled in his heart: It's over, the army is out of control, and he is in the hands of the new king of the Ming Dynasty again. It's just that there is no way to turn back now, if you retreat by yourself, then you don't need to do it with the new monarch of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers under him will directly screw their heads off.
There was no way, Polo had to bite the bullet and give the order to attack, and then he was carried by the army and rushed into the residential area.
Due to the sudden occurrence of the Jingguan Incident, the Warat generals were highly motivated, and Polo was forced to change his deployment, leaving only 5,000 cavalry to contain the Ming army in Yuantucheng, and the remaining 11,000 soldiers all rushed into the civilian housing area, intending to annihilate the 8,000 Ming army in the civilian housing area in one go.
Then use the heads of 8,000 Ming soldiers to build a double Jingguan to avenge the absurd behavior of the Ming Emperor.
The Warat soldiers were imposing, and without the slightest resistance along the way, they soon rushed along the avenue into the core area of the houses.
In the middle of the private housing area is where the Chinese army camp of Yingzhou Wei is located, and there are also four school fields. The granaries and military tents of the barracks have been set on fire by the Ming army.
A part of the Warat cavalry rushed into the camp to check if there were any remnants of the Ming army, and by the way, to see if there were any trophies left.
Most of the Warat cavalry were attracted by the baggage on the largest school yard and rushed over.
Polo tried to stop it, but it was too late. When the Warat cavalry rushed to a distance of a hundred paces from the large school field, the baggage on the school field was suddenly undisguised, revealing the five hundred bed crossbows of the camp guard.
It is true that the ordinary arrows of the Ming army could not shoot through the armor of the Warat cavalry, but the special bed crossbow of the Jinyi Wei was not.
The key Warat cavalry was charging collectively, and when they saw the bed crossbow, they couldn't stop, and in the blink of an eye, they were within the range of the bed crossbow.
Each bed crossbow was loaded with five crossbows in advance, and a hundred bed crossbows fired a salvo, that is, five hundred crossbows were fired at the Warat cavalry.
The powerful impact of the crossbow arrows is unstoppable, and once they are hit, everyone and horses are broken to bones.
Yingzhou Wei had a total of 500 bed crossbows, and each round was fired by a hundred salvos, for a total of five rounds.
Polo watched helplessly as hundreds of Warat cavalry fell in rows, and after five rounds of arrow rain, the momentum of the Warat cavalry's charge had been completely cut off, and the always brave soldiers began to retreat gradually.
Fortunately, the bed crossbow of the Ming army was disposable, and it was pulled down after shooting, and it was impossible to reload it slowly in battle.
Just when Polo was about to take a breath and then prepare to continue to organize the charge, the Ming army began its 'shameless' behavior again: I saw that the Yingzhou guards threw away the bed crossbows in the front row and hid in the chariots in the back row.
Behind the chariots, a hundred catapults, the Ming army began to aimlessly throw stones at the Warat cavalry.
The range of the catapult was about 200 steps, and the Ming army did not simply disgust the Warat cavalry in order to cause casualties.
If the Varat cavalry stayed where they were, they would huddle together, and from time to time they would have to face stones falling from the sky. No matter how good the armor is, it can't bear dozens of catties of big-headed stones and smash them on your body.
If the Warat cavalry rushed forward, when they rushed to a distance of dozens of paces from the chariot, the Ming army would shoot in the chariot and shoot with fire guns and crossbows.
If the Warat cavalry retreated to an area of three or five hundred paces, the Ming army would use artillery bombardment.
The Ming army had artillery, but it was not used until this time.
Polo was so disgusted that he couldn't say how bitter he was, the Ming army's 500 chariots were blocked here, and they couldn't rush over, and there was a rain of bullets in front of him, and a dense artillery bombardment in the back, which was really miserable.
Polo was completely discouraged, and reluctantly ordered a retreat, deciding to escape from the residential area first, join up with the 5,000 cavalry outside, and go to the open area to reorganize the army and fight again.
In the end, the Wara cavalry carried the artillery fire of the Ming army and withdrew from the camp of the Yingzhou Guard. Not only in vain, but more than two thousand corpses were thrown down.
Everyone had to follow the original road, but when they ran to the avenue, they found that the Ming army had a hundred chariots blocking the road. The most immoral thing is that the Ming army also set a fire, which directly and completely cut off the hope of the Warat cavalry to withdraw from the main road.
Then the Warat cavalry had to disperse, walk through the streets and alleys, and seize the road.
This can be in the hands of the Ming army, and the Yingzhou guard has been a trap for more than a month, and it finally worked.
After the Warat cavalry was tossed by the trap and turned on their backs, and there were countless casualties, they rushed out of the residential area.
At this time, the 5,000 cavalry of the battalion state guard, who were waiting for work, took advantage of the unstable foothold of the Wara cavalry and began to charge and kill Polo's Chinese army. The remaining 3,000 battalions of state guards carried chariots and firearms and lined up to support their cavalry.
Xu Heng and Fan Guang, the Marquis of Xing'an, took the 5,000 cavalry battalion and the 3,000 Shenji battalion and launched a fierce attack on Polo's 5,000 fresh troops.
Next, there will be real swords and real guns, and the face-to-face battle is basically 10,000 Ming cavalry against 10,000 Warat cavalry. It's just that the Ming army has 6,000 elite soldiers armed with firearms and crossbows next to the cavalry to assist in the attack.
In the end, the superiority in numbers and troops played a decisive role, and the main Polo force, which was unable to organize an effective resistance, was the first to be completely defeated. Immediately afterwards, the 5,000 Whara cavalry, which was originally used to contain the Ming army in Yuantucheng, was flanked by the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Yingzhou Wei, and suffered heavy losses.
Zhu Qiyu watched the battle at the head of the city for a long time, and saw that the Polo army had been defeated like a mountain, so he sighed: After working hard and fighting openly and secretly with the military generals of Wenchen for so long, he finally became a power.
Moreover, under the city of Beijing, as long as he cuts off 10,000 heads from the Yexian army, his great genius will be considered to have completed the task. After that, how to cut off the remaining 10,000 heads when pursuing the Yexian army is a problem that Shi Heng, Sun Bo, Fan Guang and other generals have to consider.
Most of the ministers, vassal kings, and nobles present had seen such a war scene for the first time, and before they had time to come out of the shock, the war had come to an end.
Not long after, Liu Chang left the battlefield with hundreds of guards and escorted the three Polo brothers to the city tower.
(End of chapter)