stubborn thief

Chapter 389
Guoshi Khan is not idle, or he does not want to be idle.

When the chariot carrying guns rushed into the battlefield, Guoshi Khan was not as frightened as his sixth son.

Oirat was in the middle of Ming Dynasty and Ottoman. Almost all the princes and nobles were well-informed, but they were generally uneducated.

The national teacher Khan Tulubaihu is a rare cultural person in Oirat King Kilometer, and he knows that this is nothing new.

As early as the Song Dynasty, the army had used this combination of chariots and muskets. Although the tubular firearms at that time were not powerful enough, the meaning was generally the same.

What's more, this is not an isolated case. The Russians just north of Oirat also used this combination. The Russians even put their muskets on canoes and drove them from the river.

The formation of chariots waiting for help is annoying, and most battles need to be besieged until the water and food are cut off to win, but the chariots in motion are not terrible.

As long as there are enough cavalry, chariots are not a threat.

Because the gun car looks scary, has a long range, and is powerful, but its shortcomings are also very obvious-the body armor is very good, but the two-horsepower eight-shoe engine lacks protection.

As long as the cavalry chases and shoots a few arrows, the power will first increase and then decrease until it lies down.

So Guoshi Khan was not in a hurry at all. He hoped to encourage the enemy generals to make more moves. People who made too many moves would definitely make mistakes. In his opinion, fighting a war is to see who makes more mistakes.

But the Nanying was defeated by these hundred chariots, which puzzled him.

The army is loose after the dead, so it won't retreat.

Even if half of the soldiers in front of the formation are shot down by muskets, the coach only needs to send a few teams from behind to go up first, and then withdraw the injured team.

With such a simple matter, how could there be a large-scale retreat?
Although the retreat has already happened, the battle-tested Guoshi Khan still did not panic, and the Heshuo Special Department is not afraid of retreat, which is his housekeeping skill.

During Guoshi Khan's long military career, no matter the enemy or himself, he has witnessed more than one rout and defeat. For veterans who have been on the battlefield, victory or defeat is indeed just a matter of routine in military affairs, and he should not be ashamed to say it.

There are no 100% rules for winning a war, but there are inexplicable rules to follow, because the cost of defeat is too high, and there are too many variables to win, so it is difficult to generalize experience.

There are reasons for each defeat, but there is no doubt that victories are all achieved by being infinitely close to the laws of war.

Don't say that there are enemy chariots chasing behind the Nanying's defeated army, and enemy cavalry charging on the flanks. Even if there are no such enemies, a shout from nervousness, or even a person leaving the team without authorization, may turn into a rout.

It's like a shell fell into the Marshal's mansion, and then someone shouted that the Marshal is dead, thousands of elite troops would swarm and flee, even if Liu Chengzong was alive and kicking, his voice could not stop others from fleeing.

Under today's technological conditions, this kind of defeat cannot be prevented by manpower, but when the times change and technology advances, this problem will become very easy to solve. You only need to equip each company with a walkie-talkie. Others say that the generalissimo is dead , Liu Shizi said on the walkie-talkie that you fart.

There is no need for any changes in people, and the problem is easily solved.

With the technology and wisdom possessed by Guoshi Khan, the solution to this problem is to budget. Before the war starts, it is budgeted that one's own army will retreat.

Retreat is not terrible, retreat can be reorganized, what is terrible is collapse.

After the collapse, the scattered army was divided, surrounded and wiped out by the enemy, and there was no chance of reorganization.

So long before the Heshuo special army crossed the Yellow River to the west, he had already made arrangements for where the various ministries should go after they lost touch and command.

All Heshuote officers with more than a hundred generals knew that their pre-determined retreat direction was the east bank of the Yellow River.

The disbanded army will regroup and defend the Yellow River to form a second line of defense.

However, Ma Ke led more than [-] cavalry of the Han army to launch an attack during the retreat. The most annoying group was still in the south just now, but suddenly ran to the east, and rushed westward into Dorji's thousands of soldiers. In the rout of the large column, spears flew like flying for a while, breaking the front into several sections.

Turubaihu couldn't sit still anymore. He found that with the defeat of the Southern Camp, the cavalry's strategy was to expel the more than [-] defeated troops of the Southern Camp from the south side of the battlefield to the west.

Once the enemy cavalry completed this intention, the moment Nanying was expelled from the battlefield was the beginning of his losing the initiative on the battlefield.

At this time, there was no such word as initiative, but the meaning of taking the lead was the same. It was not just the geographical advantage, but the initiative that was seized.

This is also a trend. Simply put, the initiative of the campaign includes three questions, when?where?What method?

Taking the initiative means fighting whenever you want, where you want to fight, and how you want to fight.

Losing the initiative is tantamount to sitting still for Guoshi Khan.

So a cavalry team of thousands of riders was sent out by Guoshi Khan, marching from east to southwest along the edge of the trench, trying to help the pierced Nanying to restore its decline and expel the Han army cavalry.

But they were only halfway through when a cannon shot suddenly sounded from the flanks.

That was the sixteen lion cannons that Liu Shizi planted in the southeast corner of the car camp. If Ma Ke's opponent was the Heshuote South Battalion, then Liu Shizi's goal was always the Heshuote East Battalion.

Because he knew that there was the command center and main force of this huge enemy army.

It's not that he saw anything. The wind and sand on the battlefield obscured his vision, making it impossible for him to see the situation two miles away even with a telescope. However, this matter does not need to be considered too much, it is basically common sense.

In most cases, the command center will be well-defended, and it is easy to contact the troops on the battlefield, so it is usually in the center of the front.

There are indeed generals with slanted swords, but not many.

Each of the sixteen lion cannons that had been prepared earlier was loaded with loose guns according to his previous order, and they were waiting for the enemy troops in the east camp to rush to the south.

They used 150 pieces of Sanqian Sanzi, and the whole bomb weighed a catty and a half. Double charge was needed to increase the effective range to [-] steps.

But the marching route of the Dongying reinforcements was on the edge of their effective range.

However, the Heshuote army lacked knowledge of artillery. The princes and nobles knew about artillery, but their understanding of artillery was limited to seeing some pipes, or seeing captured Russian Francophones.

Besides, most of their knowledge of artillery comes from this battle... It doesn't kill a few people, but it has a long range.

Therefore, these galloping cavalry believe that 150 steps is a very safe distance, and muskets, rockets, and bows and arrows are helpless to them.

And artillery, it is difficult to target them before they run away.

Still suffered from lack of culture.

In an instant, more than 200 small projectiles flew across the battlefield through the flames and smoke, and shot blood mist among the galloping cavalry columns.

The frightened wounded horse men stood up and ran around, shaking their heads and bumping into each other, and trampled on the wounded soldiers who fell from horses with open hooves, making the healthy soldiers who had been showing off their might before mourn all over the place.

This scene made Guoshi Khan's eyes tear open, and he almost shattered the already cracked telescope in his palm.

He could see clearly that there was a burst of gunpowder smoke in the southeast corner of the car camp, and the bullets sprayed out of the fire were like a cloud of migratory locusts covering his rescue cavalry. In just one click, almost half of the centurion soldiers were gone and killed. Countless war horses were injured.

If it were put into the whole battle, this casualty is naturally not worth mentioning, but it was an instant, and half of the team was wiped out by Sanzi in an instant, which made Guoshi Khan terrified.

Fortunately, after the panic of the initial shelling, the cavalry instinctively withdrew from the firing range and ran as far away from the chariot formation as possible. They did not regroup until they retreated more than a mile to the south, and then continued to march toward the cavalry. The smoke and dust charged by the department pursued them.

The reason it was smoke and dust was because the generals on both sides could not see Marko on the main battlefield. He led his troops to attack the enemy in the southern camp.

At this moment, warning horns sounded from the west side of Liu Chengzong's chariot camp, and across the forest of spears, Liu Shizi saw from the flags unfurled in the west that an enemy army ranging from [-] to [-] was approaching him from the west.

Immediately after that, two more trumpets sounded, and the enemy army was within one mile.

Before he could get away from the joy of successfully ambushing the artillery, his heart suddenly lifted. For a moment, he was not so much worried about the enemy's imminent attack on the army formation, but rather worried about the safety of Wei Qian'er and even Yang Yao's troops in the west.

It stands to reason that the enemy should not appear in the west, at least not so quickly.

But the enemy didn't give him a chance to think about it. After a while, Liu Chengzong, who got on his horse, could already see the mighty cavalry that divided into three groups and charged towards him on the road.

To be honest, at this moment, it was difficult for Liu Chengzong to determine whether the enemy wanted to charge or charge.

It was said to be a collision, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks seemed to be planning to ride and shoot nearby; it could be said to be an impact, and the five or six hundred cavalry in the middle formed more than a dozen collision formations with spears straightened out.

But Liu Shizi can be sure of one thing, the Mongolian cavalry with a total strength of about [-] came in a hurry. The Bureau did not give them the opportunity to observe the battlefield.

Otherwise, how could anyone... use a cavalry team to storm the car camp?

Because these people not only did not observe that the Han army formation here was a chariot camp, they even did not see the uneven trenches a hundred steps away from the formation.

It's even suspicious, why are these people here?

The mighty rushing forward, approaching the ditch with more than ten steps, the front team all started to slow down at the same time, and the rear team was still rushing forward without knowing why, and suddenly the front stopped and the back squeezed, and the horse who had just exerted all his strength to rein in the horse The front team pushed into the trench.

People turn their backs.

But the enemy's will to charge was extremely resolute. Seeing the fallen robes and horses fill up the trench, the horse team behind stepped on it without hesitation.

Liu Shizi was dumbfounded. He led the army to fight in the northwest and southwest for four years. He thought he had seen a lot, but he had never seen such a reckless enemy!
"Hey, what the hell is this bunch of things?"

boom!
A lion cannon fired first from the northwest of the car camp, and more than a dozen cavalry fell on the spot, but it was difficult to stop the cavalry from charging; another lion cannon followed closely, but it was also of no avail.

Immediately, hundreds of guns were fired in bursts, and the alternating sound of guns seemed to ignite amplified firecrackers in front of the formation. Shoot to stop the enemy.

The momentum of the front team seemed to be choked, but only for a moment, the rear team rushed forward again, without giving the soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion any time to reload.

For a while, the rain of arrows was like locusts, and the two cavalry on the left and right flanks, which were maimed by lead bullets, shot arrows in a ring formation. Two or three hundred cavalry in the middle rushed towards the chariot formation for dozens of steps, and found that there were chariots connected in front of them. Only then did they stop the charge, and spread out in the middle of the battlefield, showing a very dazed appearance.

In just a moment, they resolutely got off their horses, blindfolded their horses and drove their horses towards the chariot formation.

He Huchen, who was holding the formation to the west, was extremely nervous. He drew his sword from his waist and shouted for the soldiers to hold their ground and meet the impact.

He Zan even held a long knife and led a group of people standing behind the spearman, ready to cross the car formation and countercharge at any time.

The next moment, the chariots and horses collided, and more than a dozen war horses galloped and crashed into the center of the west side of the chariot formation, and were pierced by several spears. Four or five connected Lele chariots were also knocked away by inertia, and the sandbags were rushed high into the air. , sprinkling yellow sand all over the sky and falling to the ground.

The dismounted Mongolian soldiers separated their chariots and drew their bows and arrows. More people rushed into the position along the gap with short soldiers, and started a hand-to-hand battle with the Han army of the Marshal's Mansion.

Until then, Liu Chengzong didn't know why these 'fearless' enemy troops were crazy. He raised his arms on horseback and pointed to the distance, where thicker smoke and dust were raised.

Under the smoke and dust, there is a large encirclement of frontier cavalry with fast horses, light knives, soft bows and long arrows.

In the formation was flying the red-bottomed Liu character flag, and in the middle was a thousand cavalry led by Zuo Guangxian forming the front formation, while Wei Qian'er's cavalry was slightly behind, with dozens of shock teams, spread out to form a mighty formation of Que Yue Formation, galloping to the back of this enemy army.

Seeing those flying banners, Liu Chengzong knew it in his heart, and all doubts were solved.

Those who went crazy and hit the back of his army formation were an enemy army that was chased and intercepted and had no way to escape... Their only chance of survival was to pierce through their own lines and join the main force.

"wrong!"

As soon as Liu Chengzong thought so, he immediately overturned his judgment.

It is impossible for the stragglers who gathered hastily after being defeated to penetrate their own army formation, but the loud shouts of killing will not be ignored by anyone on the battlefield, and the main enemy army in the east will definitely not remain indifferent.

If it was him, even if he couldn't see the situation to the west, he would send troops to attack on three sides at the same time, and suddenly launch a fierce attack with multiple troops is the way to win.

Thinking of this, he frowned and said to the left and right: "Raise the flag and blow the horn, tell the east and north sides to prepare for the impact and defend the enemy!"

With the swaying of military flags, the sound of military music, and the sound of horns all over the sky, the defenders of the chariot battalion opened up their postures, and rows of soldiers set up on the chariots with loaded firearms, and the spears were like a forest behind the chariots.

At the same time, the enemy army was also like a summoned dark cloud. Amidst the overtones and the sound of drums and horns, two horse teams circled west and south.

The main force of the enemy forces on both sides of the northeast also quickly assembled and marched out of the cavalry formation, and pressed up against the car battalion with firm steps.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)