Wanli Xinming

Chapter 65 Blocking
On March 400th of the second year of Wanli, Wang Gao led his army out of the green mountains and stormed Tianshui Zhanbao. Although the more than 200 Ming troops resisted desperately, they were attacked by the mad allied forces of the two captives for a day. After three hours, the fort wall was broken, and more than [-] soldiers and civilians in the fort were all slaughtered.

The desperate resistance of Tianshui Zhanbao and the subsequent looting greatly slowed down Wang Gao's progress.On March 22, the main force of the Ming army that followed was less than twenty miles away from Wang Gao, and scouts from both sides began to strangle each other.

The Tartars had already penetrated into the bright realm at this time. Although he had expected this situation when he chose this path, when the noose was really wrapped around his neck, Wang Gao would still go crazy.He kept thinking about whether Li Chengliang, in turn, used his pre-judgment of the tactics of the Liaodong army to attract him.

Facts have proved that crossing Liaoyangwei was a huge mistake that was enough to wipe out his entire army.After Wang Gao sorted out the army and went north to enter Liaoyang Guard, none of the scouts who came out at dawn did not return for more than an hour. Wang Gao, who had been fighting all year round, knew that the time to come had finally arrived.

At this time, the army was marching on a small field, with Weiming Mountain in the northwest and Wuding Mountain in the southeast, surrounded by hills, which was not conducive to the deployment of cavalry.An official road in the field leads to the tiger skin station.If Wang Gao wanted to carry out his plan of crossing Liaoyang and entering Hetao from the west wall, he had to quickly pass through the 35-mile official road—could the Ming army still give him a chance?

After another incense stick of time, a scout finally returned covered in blood, and reported: "Marfa, the official road ten miles ahead is blocked by the army infantry, and a row of repelling horses has been set up. The number may be 3000."

When a group of Tartars heard it, they laughed and said, How long will the three thousand foot soldiers stop my seven thousand cavalry?Can pass by!Wang Gao listened and shouted: "At this time, as long as they are blocked for two or three hours, Li Chengliang's army will be able to come up from the back. What should I do then?"

I asked the scout again, how is the field beside the official road?Can you run a horse?The scout spat out a mouthful of blood, and Fang replied, "Mafa, the Ming army led the river and soaked the surrounding fields for a few days. Now the ground is full of mud, and the horses can't run even if they enter." All took a breath.

Wang Gao calmed his mind and mobilized: "Everyone, I have to work hard at this time. There are infantry in front of us blocking the way. If you rush past, you will survive. If you can't rush past, the whole army will be wiped out! , we must kill it!"

When the prisoners heard it, they didn't say anything else, and they sorted out the horse team.The cavalry all dismounted and walked, saving horsepower.The troops took out the looted beans from the dry ration bag as they walked, and took the time to feed the horses.He also chewed dry food, drank some water, and sorted out his weapons.

After walking for half an hour, the forward saw the wet fields beside the official road, and knew that he was about to reach the place where the Ming army blocked.Turning along the official road, there was a low hill overgrown with bushes, and the army stopped. Three miles away, the Ming army set up three front and rear formations in the official road and the fields on both sides, blocking the way.

At this time, Wang Gao looked back immediately and saw smoke and dust in the distance behind the army, guessing that Li Chengliang's army was about to arrive on the battlefield.He pulled out his waist knife and pointed forward: "There's no time, rush!" The personal soldiers on the side took out the horns, and the humming sounded, and the world was suddenly filled with a chilling air.

Because the official way cannot develop a large army, most of the cavalry can only stand in the field on horseback to form a team.In the first wave, there were six rows of cavalry, each with more than 50 cavalry, and a total of more than 300 cavalry clamped their horses with force, charging forward with bows and arrows in hand.

In the second square on the opposite side, Li Rusong rode on a horse, surrounded by a hundred households in golden clothes and a bunch of personal soldiers.Seeing the Tarrup cavalry begin to charge, he calmly ordered: "Move my flag to the front!" After speaking, he urged the horse to move forward and entered the rear of the first phalanx.

It took a few breaths, and the cavalry from three miles away arrived in no time. When the Tartars rushed 150 steps in front of the formation, half of the cavalry in the first row stumbled. Horse pit.

The horse sinking pit dug by the Liaodong army was particularly insidious. It was not a large horse sinking pit that was several feet long, wide and deep, but a small hole the size of a sea bowl and less than half a foot deep.The densely dug in front of the rejected horse, covered with branches and grass, and then sprinkled with soil, looks the same as the normal ground, but if the unlucky horse hits a foot, its front legs will be broken, and the cavalry will fly high and fall to the ground, even if it falls. Not to die, but also to fall most of his life.

The width of the official road was no more than [-] feet. After the Talu cavalry rushed up, the horses on the official road ran fast and the horses in the wild beside the road ran slowly, so a cone formation naturally formed.At this time, the tip of the conical assault formation had already turned over, and the entire offensive slowed down.Ming Jun, who was standing in the front row, saw it, and his heart, which was beating violently with the sound of the small drum, calmed down.

Hearing the sound of a big drum from the central army, the front row of Ming army generals pressed their shoulders with the tail of their spears, which were more than ten and a half feet long, against the ground. A dense jungle of spears appeared.Wang Gao saw it from a distance, and his scalp felt numb.

The Jianzhou soldiers did not use the momentum of the horses to collide with the phalanx, but still used the method of riding and archery: when they approached the phalanx at fifty paces, they moved the horses horizontally together, and at the same time threw a shower of arrows at the infantry.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army did not use the firearms that they were good at, but heard a horn from the central army. The archers behind the infantry in the front also threw a wave of arrows at the cavalry. At the same time, all the infantry raised small round shields to block the phalanx. diagonally above.

This formation has never been seen on the Liaodong Army.Before the war between the two armies, the Ming army infantry and the Tartar cavalry rarely fought in the field. There was at least a walled or chariot formation between the two armies. .

Unexpectedly, although the Ming army infantry they encountered this time did not set up a vehicle formation, they only used spears and bows and arrows.

The two sides came and went in front of the battle, and the ground was full of arrows.The Tatar cavalry was able to move, and the Ming infantrymen held their shields stably, and the casualty ratio of the two sides gradually reached one to one, that is, one Ming army was replaced by one Tatar cavalry.

However, the Ming army was in the phalanx, and soon after the arrow was injured, someone replaced the position, and the wounded could immediately withdraw to the rear formation to deal with the injury.The cavalry on the horse was not so good, and could only lean over on the horse to withdraw from the battlefield. If the horse was hit by an arrow, it was even more chaotic, making the charge formation a mess.

Wang Gao dispatched troops here and rushed three waves. Seeing that the phalanx was not loose, his heart gradually became impatient.If he were given two or three hours, when the number of Ming troops was small, he would use his cavalry and shooting slowly, and he would be able to break through the formation with little loss.

The personal soldiers who went to the rear team for reconnaissance returned to the central army and reported in a low voice: "Marfa, the cavalry of the rear army is less than five miles away from us, and it will arrive in a flash."

Wang Gao knew that life and death were at stake, so he personally picked up the horn and blew it hard.He waved the machete again and commanded: "Don't ride and shoot, rush into the formation!"

The Jianzhou cavalry in the front row received the order and made a ho-ho sound, like a low roar of a beast.Put down the blindfold on the horse's forehead, blindfolded the horse's eyes and rushed to the high speed, slantingly rammed into the horse who was full of spears.

When the horses and people were about to hit the tip of the spear, the Tartars twisted their bodies with all their strength, hoping to get into the gap in the spear formation. At this time, the Ming army, who was pressing the spear with his body, also pulled out the three-eyed gun and lit the match. Play against the cavalry rushing up.

A warhorse weighed more than a thousand pounds, and with the high speed of the rush, even though the front row was buried deep in the soil, it was hit by the cavalry dozens of times and nearly fell apart in many places.

At this moment, both sides were red-eyed. Between the front lines, flesh and blood were flying, crying fathers and mothers screaming, grass fathers and mothers scolding, accompanied by the loud noise of firearms and the sound of golden drums and horns, which shocked people.

At the cost of more than [-] cavalry deaths, the Ming army's first row of phalanxes finally broke through several openings.Wang Gao saw that almost all of his death squads were killed in battle.

Su Paihai did not expect that his good Mongolian Khan would fall into a dead place. At this time, he did not care about preserving his strength, and commanded the cavalry of the Tumet troops to enter through the gap to kill and disperse the Ming army.

At this time, all the people in the front line were the elite soldiers of the Li family. Although they saw a gap in the front line, they did not panic. When they heard the order of the army center, the spearmen in the second and third rows rushed forward a few steps. They went all out to keep the array intact, and those behind them kept firing arrows and three-eyed guns.

Wang Gao saw that the infantry of the first phalanx was getting thinner and thinner, but it still did not collapse. At the same time, the soldiers of the second phalanx began to firmly reject the horse in front of him. His heart was cold, and he knew that he had taken the opposite general.

When Wang Gao first saw the opponent's [-]-strong army formation, the opponent only had a row of horse-rejecting spears, and there was no common chariot formation, which gave him a feeling that this formation could be broken.

When the attack started, when Ma Jun was trapped in a horse pit, he had a bad premonition: This Ming army has time to dig a pit, but no time to set up a car array?

But at that time, he was still lucky, thinking that the Ming army did not bring a chariot, which is not impossible.When the riding and shooting began, the Ming army did not use firearms, which made Wang Gao's luck a little bit bigger. Could it be that they didn't bring any firearms?
As a result, the cavalry and shooting were over, and the Ming army used a spear formation; the spear formation was about to break, and the familiar three-eyed gun also appeared; the first phalanx was about to be disbanded, and the second phalanx was about to be dismantled. What does it mean to hide the horses behind the flag in the war?
　It was the first time that Lao Mo wrote about the war, and he felt that he didn't feel like he was writing about the bloody veins -- this writing still needs to be practiced.Hope to do better in future battles.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)