stubborn thief

Chapter 386
It was an accident that the Oirat coalition forces collided with Liu Chengzong's Chinese army.

Guoshi Khan is only cautious, and both prudence and recklessness are choices based on the judgment of the situation. Sometimes caution can avoid risks, and sometimes recklessness can also reap extraordinary achievements.

The first time he discovered Liu Chengzong's army, Guoshi Khan didn't think it was an army that he didn't expect. He thought it was the Han army that besieged Dalaitaiji and was retreating.

From the old wooden binoculars, Guoshi Khan saw Tangqi walking around the formation. After that, the Heshuote Lancers divided into two groups, chasing Tangqi on the one hand, and attacking the Han army formation on the other. .

But the chariot array full of sandbags was as solid as gold, and there was a circle of ditches of different depths on the periphery. The cavalry rushed to the front and reined in their horses one after another, even if the horseshoes kicked up dust in front of the ditches, they couldn't rush in.

After the formation of chariots, a row of guns was fired, more than a dozen cavalry fell off their horses in the smoke and dust, and the rest of the cavalry turned around and galloped back.

Even the Lancers who were chasing Tangqi did not dare to go around the formation any more, they pulled their spears to rein in their horses, and retreated to the two wings.

The tactic of enveloping the defeated Tang cavalry and attacking the enemy's formation failed, and Guoshi Khan immediately ordered a retreat, ordering all the cavalry to retreat back within a stone's throw, and slowly formed a three-sided encirclement of the Han army's chariot formation in the east, north, and south.

Taking advantage of the mobilization of soldiers and horses, Guoshi Khan followed the cavalry behind the formation to observe the enemy.

Although Guoshi Khan had never fought against the Che Ying of the Ming army, he was no stranger to the formation of the Che Ying during his long military career.

Kazakhs, Cossacks, Khalkhas, and Oirats have all used car camps.

The defensive ability of the car battalion is very tenacious, but its victory or defeat in battle is often not related to itself, but to the situation on the battlefield.

Guo Shihan looked at Che Ying.

The entire camp was square, with thousands of chariots connected end to end, with pockets piled up beside them like a mountain. The Han army was waiting for them with muskets at the rear, and countless spears and flags were hunting. The gap is particularly spectacular.

Guoshi Khan secretly said in his heart that it was a pity, if they could be faster, they might be able to take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's unsteady formation to destroy it.

But at this time, the chariot formation had already been deployed, and few of the armies that deployed the chariot formation were destroyed by the enemy, just as few famous cities fell because the city walls were attacked.

The vast majority of sieges are sieges, and the vast majority of sieges ultimately result in the collapse of the defenders' psychological defenses.

People's hearts have collapsed, and there is only one way to collapse in a strong city wall.

The same principle applies to car camps.

Car battalion is not a clever tactic, but a method that can quickly build simple fortifications on the battlefield. In fact, except for changes in productivity, it is essentially not much different from Wugang car formation in the Han Dynasty in terms of ideology.

Forcibly rushing into the car formation is the same as attacking the city when the defenders are prepared, it is a mindless behavior.

After a little observation, Guoshi Khan roughly estimated that the enemy's army was less than 4000, so he ordered his prince Zaisang to divide the [-] troops and leave [-] people trapped in the Han army.

The remaining [-] troops were divided into two groups, one to the west and the other to the south.

To the west, the cavalry who collided with Wei Qian'er's troops rushed to the rescue; to the south, they joined Dalaitaiji who was trapped on the high ground as soon as possible and rescued him.

The 6000 troops left on the Gobi Desert were also divided into four [-]-strong infantry and cavalry mixed troops, which surrounded the north, east, and south in three directions, and another part was stationed in the south as a reserve team.

The order of the National Teacher Khan was issued, and the entire army was deployed and moved accordingly, but his mind was still spinning, thinking about the situation between the enemy and ourselves on the entire battlefield.

As one of the few cultural people in Oirat, Guoshi Khan used a horse whip to draw on the sand dunes, calculating the number of Han troops that had been discovered before.

In Guide, there are at least 8000 Han troops; here, there are [-] people; plus the more than [-] cavalry that suddenly encountered in the west.

If it was this army that besieged Dalaitaiji, then the Han army had mobilized [-] troops to go to sea.

If there is another one on the Dalaitaiji side, the Marshal's Mansion will send [-] troops to sea, and the sea will be extremely empty.

This means that by annihilating any exposed Han troops, Oirat can drive straight to the sea; on the other hand, it also means that he can devote all his strength to fighting here without having to worry about enemy reinforcements.

These armies likely had no reinforcements.

However, to be on the safe side, Guoshi Khan still dispatched two thousand-man teams to spread out to the north to check the nearby enemy troops to prevent them from being attacked by the enemy troops.

As for the car camp, as long as the outer battlefield is cleared, it is confirmed that there are no reinforcements, the road for help is blocked and harassed, there is no need to surround the car camp without water and food.

The car battalion itself is a tool for giving up part of the mobility and passive defense. It cannot attack the enemy beyond the range. Whether you want to attack or retreat, you always have to pull out the battalion.

And the change of camp is the opportunity for Guoshi Khan to attack.

at the same time.

Liu Chengzong in the camp is also calculating.

They were suddenly attacked. Fortunately, the seven thousand soldiers in the two battalions around them were not recruits. Facing the menacing Oirat army, they panicked and panicked. They knew that it would be good for them to obey the command and stabilize their position.

Liu Chengzong was calculating a very simple question: how many Mongolians surrounded him.

He tried to ride his horse on the front line, but standing behind the chariot, even climbing on the chariot and stepping on sandbags, he could only see dust rising up from an arrow away, and the distance was blurry, and the enemy's formation could not be seen clearly with naked eyes or binoculars edge.

People shouting horses neighing and smoke billowing in all directions.

It made Liu Chengzong unable to distinguish the size of the enemy army, and it was also difficult to know the enemy's purpose. It was impossible to know in advance whether the enemy army was planning to besiege or prepare to attack, until Yang Qi, who was sent to the west by him, ran back and reported: "Commander, the enemy army is in There was no siege in the west, and a cavalry team of two or three thousand riders was sent west."

There is no fence on the west side?

Liu Chengzong squinted his eyes, regardless of whether this is true or not, the cavalry sent to the west was undoubtedly sent to support the enemy army that collided with Wei Qian'er.

"Who told them to go!" Liu Chengzong stared at Yang Qi and asked, "General Yang, can you let them go to the west to surround my subordinates?"

Yang Qi froze for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I can't."

Liu Chengzong praised: "Yes, find a way to let them come back and surround me."

Relatively speaking, Liu Chengzong is not familiar with the car camps. He has only fought the car camps set up by the officers and soldiers a few times, and he has not used them much. To win the positive inside.

The last thing the enemy wants to do is to forcibly rush into the car camp, so the car camp must attract enemy troops to besiege and attack itself.

Although the number of troops is smaller than that of the enemy, Liu Chengzong is not afraid of being besieged. His chariot formation prepared with sandbags is as strong as a fortification built in advance.

The enemy's muskets cannot break the formation, the bow and arrow are not powerful enough, and the horses are blocked by the chariot battalion. The only chance to break the formation is hand-to-hand combat.

The true meaning of hand-to-hand combat does not depend on who is strong in martial arts, but on who can make the enemy fall first on the way to attack, and whoever wins.

Liu Shizi believes in the power of guns and artillery in hand-to-hand combat.

But the victory or defeat of this battle is not up to him, and the more enemy troops he can hold back the surprise soldiers swimming outside, the greater their chances of winning.

But Liu Chengzong stumped Yang Qi, how could he call the enemy back?
Yang Qi thought about it, and finally thought: "Commander, you still have to use the cannon. The final general is willing to lead more than [-] elite cavalry to gather in the southern formation. Please gather more than ten artifacts to bombard the Southern Qi. The final general will lead the troops to charge the formation. .”

After all, he thought for a while, and said as if to cheer himself up: "It's best to take advantage of the wind and sand to kill the general and capture the flag."

"South?"

Liu Chengzong thought for a while, then nodded slowly: "Rush to the south, if the enemy forces block the way of retreat, go straight to Qingshan and look for General Feng to annihilate the pursuing enemy."

Yang Qi nodded in response, and slowly swallowed his saliva, he really thought so, but this job is simple to say, but it is different to do it.

Among other things, they didn't know how many enemy troops surrounded one side, and he would believe it if they said [-].

At this time, there is a strong wind and smoke, and it is not impossible to rush through the formation with five hundred horsemen.

But it is indeed not much easier than returning to the formation.

Liu Chengzong thought about it for a while, wrote two letters, and ordered to the left and right: "Call the general Huang Shengxiao, the general manager Zuo Guangxian, and the general manager Ma Ke."

Yang Qi's face was bewildered, and he was ecstatic in his heart. Is the commander planning to put all the old officers and soldiers under my command?
Not long after, the three rushed to the central army one after another. Huang Shengxiao came over with his helmet in his arms and said, "Commander, the Wala Tartars are planning to trap us. I saw horsemen gathering in the south, and I guess they are going to attack General Feng. "

"They don't want to go anywhere."

Liu Chengzong let out a snort, and asked Ma Ke and Zuo Guang first: "Do the two generals Zuo Ma dare to rush to the aid of the friendly army?"

Ma Ke has always been doing this kind of work of daring to die. He dared to assassinate Liu Chengzong. If he dared not, he immediately clasped his fists and said, "Why don't you dare!"

Zuo Guangxian hesitated a little, and asked: "Where does the commander want the humble job to attack?"

Zuo Guangxian was very familiar with the Mongols. He was in Xuanfu in his early years and was the front line against the Mongols. When Yue Hesheng transferred him from Xuanfu Town to Yulin Town, he taught the army how to use firearms as a guerrilla general.

In the past few years when Liu Shizi fought in the northwest and southwest, Zuo Guangxian was still teaching the army how to use muskets.

However, with the popularity of large objects such as guns and heavy artillery in the Shuaifu, his past firearms theory is a bit outdated, and he is still learning.

Liu Chengzong first said to Huang Shengxiao: "The artillery sent twelve heavy cannons to the south, supplemented by rockets, to make a way to the south; the horseman led six hundred cavalry to charge south."

"It's best if you can retreat to the formation after the attack, and the muskets will cover you; if you can't retreat, go south through the enemy's formation and go straight to Qingshan to find General Feng and convey my order to him."

As he said that, Liu Chengzong handed a letter addressed to Feng Ru to Ma Ke, and another letter to Zuo Guangxian, saying: "General Zuo led an army of [-], riding horses and chariots from the west, each of them Take two mules and follow the enemy army to find General Wei, and support him in defeating the enemy army. Let General Wei deliver this letter to Marshal Yang."

Hearing this order, Zuo Guang was relieved first, and embraced the order.

But Yang Qi was dumbfounded, looked at Liu Chengzong but didn't dare to ask, thinking in his heart, don't I need to go?

Liu Chengzong naturally knew Yang Qi's doubts, and said with a smile: "General Yang, don't worry, sooner or later he will lead the army, but right now, I still need you to advise me."

Huang Shengxiao, Zuo Guangxian, and Ma Ke quickly went down to prepare.

Ever since seeing Oirat's army rushing aggressively, Liu Chengzong has been preparing for a counterattack in his heart.

It doesn't matter whether it's a coincidence and a surprise victory, or the tactics of kidnapping horses, anvils and hammers, or the five sentries of soldiers. In short, Liu Chengzong only knows this tactic.

If the car battalion wants to win the battle, it must have two advantages, one is to have the power to counterattack; the other is to have supporting reinforcements on the periphery.

Now that Liu Chengzong has a certain counterattack force, the key to victory in the battle lies in reinforcements.

That's why he wrote those two letters and handed them to Feng Ru and Yang Yao, who were leading the troops outside. They used the chariot battalion to hold back the main force of the enemy army, and used reinforcements to launch an assault from the periphery of the enemy army.

The two attacking cavalry teams quickly completed their preparations in the camp. For a while, the mules kicked up dust all over the sky, and even the national teacher Khan stationed in the east of the car camp noticed the strangeness in the Han army formation.

However, dust is the magic weapon for Oirat's main force to cover up its troops, and it can also be used by Huang Shengxiao's artillery. Six hundred tiger galloping chariots, twelve heavy cannons, and 24 lion cannons were concentrated in the south of the car battalion and spread out in front of the formation. neatly lined up.

The Oirat Lancers wandering an arrow away from the south of the chariot formation soon noticed the movement of the Han army. Seeing a huge and heavy artillery being pushed out of the chariot formation, they called out loudly to remind the army formation behind them.

The leader of the Weilatnan Battalion reacted quickly, and immediately ordered the two groups of cavalry to get on their horses and attack the artillery position more than ten steps forward.

However, before the Chinese army commanded the account, Liu Chengzong had already stood under the banner with his hands behind his back, and nodded slowly to his side.

The high-pitched suona sound blew out an exciting melody in the formation, and the strong drummers beat the drumsticks heavily on the battle drums, making the flags sway quickly in the formation, and a flag spear was erected high by the soldiers.

Heshuote cavalry galloped on horseback, and their spears fell slowly. Cavalrymen in mail armor and red caps were lying low on horseback, with their left hands reining in their shields. A pair of eyes were exposed from the edge of the helmet, and the sweeping earth dragon rushed towards the position.

Huang Shengxiao, who was wearing a helmet and armor, carried a rolled-up battle flag on his shoulders. He pressed his knife in the middle of the artillery position and walked forward for more than ten steps. He made sure that every artilleryman behind him could see him before stopping.

Looking at the horse team running not far away, he took out a handful of fried noodles from his waist pocket and poured them into his mouth. He shook his shoulders and held the flag spear horizontally in his palm. With the flag spear shaking, the rolled up red flag with Liu characters fell down.

Then he lunged forward abruptly, and the big flag flew out, fluttering in the wind.

Almost at the same time, from right to left behind him, a series of large and small artillery and rocket vehicles were ignited, solid iron bullets plowed out the thorny and bloody roads, the horses hissed and fell to death, and the cavalry fell in horror.

What made people even more horrified was that when they raised their heads, six hundred Liu Guoneng, whose buttocks were smoking, scrambled in the air, spraying towards them with willful screams.

Amidst the roar of iron hoofs trampling on the ground, a passage flashed out in the southwest corner of the car formation. Zuo Guang first led the cavalry on horses and mules to rush out from the flanks. The butt threw out a huge lead bullet to meet the enemy, and galloped westward without looking back.

Behind the artillerymen, the chariots full of sandbags were withdrawn, and Ma Ke led the fine cavalry to walk out, with the Chuangwangguan sword in his palm pointing forward, leading the horse and galloping towards the Oirat cavalry who were delayed by the artillery rockets.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)