stubborn thief

Chapter 393
As night fell, Tang Qi scattered around the edge of the battlefield, the torches in his hands reflected the stars in the sky.

The hustle and bustle of fighting did not end until dark, but the siege of the chariot formation on the battlefield disappeared.

The father and son Guoshi Khan and Dorjitaiji used the same carbine tactic on different battlefields at the same time.

At the beginning of Liu Chengzong's change of formation and anti-encirclement, Guo Shihan risked his left and right wings being cut off by the two cavalry of He Huchen and Wei Qian'er, and ordered the entire army to retreat [-] steps eastward.

This retreat is very delicate.

When Guoshi Khan's left and right wings are at the same level as the central army, the army forms a large horizontal formation running three miles from north to south and six rows deep. The six rows of troops are divided into two horizontal formations three rows deep. The enemy, the front team retreated backwards again and again.

During the retreat, jagged protrusions formed on the front line.

When the enemy retreated, the army of the Marshal's Mansion naturally moved forward. Since the soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion were generally in armor and were also victorious troops, it was not surprising that the enemy was constantly retreating during the battle.

So much so that the frontline troops failed to notice it, and Liu Chengzong himself only felt that the enemy was retreating steadily.

At the beginning, he was happy to see the enemy retreat. The enemy retreated and the infantry chased after him. The lion artillery team that was originally on the front line of the conflict was saved, and the heavy artillery team in the central army could also mount horses to maneuver.

It wasn't until he pushed it nearly a hundred steps that Liu Chengzong suddenly discovered...it was a premeditated temptation.

His army fought in the west, and the central army could rely on chariots in the east to maintain a large width with a small number of soldiers, while the left and right wings in the north and south were all clashing with cavalry, which also had a large width.

But when they came out of the chariot formation, as the enemy stabilized the front line, more and more soldiers on the two wings chose to dismount and fight, and the width narrowed;

But no one on the front line wants to have a smaller width than the enemy, otherwise they will be divided and surrounded. People's unanimous choice is to spread the troops on their hands as much as possible to fill the front line.

The problem was that in this duel, he was the one with the weakest troops.

The difference between the two armies is that Liu Chengzong's disadvantage in terms of military strength is further expanding as the battle progresses. In order to avoid being surrounded, he uses [-] soldiers to maintain a front of the same width as nearly [-] enemy troops. Row.

Even if Liu Shizi found out the problem, he could only stick to it for two hundred steps forward.

Because he can't withdraw.

There are rules and regulations for attacking and retreating. Generally, it is an overlapping formation, which means overlapping. The left advances, the right advances, the rear advances, and the front advances again. The same is true for retreat.

Liu Chengzong's troops were so stretched that they could only distinguish left and right, but not front and back, and could not use repeated formations to retreat.

Standing still is not enough, although his army can take advantage of the long-range advantage of firearms by standing still, it will also bring opportunities for the enemy cavalry to collide. Three rows of thin horizontal lines, more than ten armored cavalry are desperate Once hit, it must be torn apart.

This disadvantage of insufficient troops and barely increasing the width cannot be changed. All Liu Chengzong can do is not to give the enemy a chance to collide, and defeat a part of the enemy as soon as possible.

So he ordered Huang Shengxiao to carry all the light and heavy artillery, detour to the left flank, go around to the enemy's flank in the north, and directly blast the enemy's right flank with the advantage of heavy artillery.

While the artillery team was moving slowly, Liu Chengzong's figure appeared in Guoshi Khan's telescope.

In fact, Liu Chengzong's location is very easy to find. Although nightfall makes it difficult to find the general, it is easy for people to guess the approximate location by following the direction of the messenger, and as long as you look for it in that area, you can always see rows of people preparing for it. Armor-piercing hoplites.

Liu Chengzong's front line is weak, only the Chen Bu chariot soldiers in that direction, so naturally, the coach is there.

But Guoshi Khan couldn't find the coach. Although he saw Liu Chengzong, he didn't think it was the coach of the Han army.

All soldiers wore red cloth-faced iron armor, and it was difficult to classify them. Others led tall and strong Hequ war horses and pack mules, only Liu Chengzong did not lead a horse. He stood behind the formation and looked around, and he was still eating.

When Guoshi Khan saw him, he gave the front line an order to be on guard against the enemy's heavy cavalry charging... He must be a general who was about to lead the troops into the battle, as if he was reincarnated from starvation.

Guoshi Khan originally wanted to send heavy infantry to clear the way for the heavy cavalry as soon as he found out the position of the commander-in-chief of the Han army, and used heavy cavalry to run over the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, but because Liu Shizi ate a few more things, he stood still and waited for the imaginary The Han army charged into battle.

Unfortunately, the Han army did not.

The more Turubaihu waited, the more anxious he became, not only because it was difficult for his soldiers to gain an advantage in frontal duels, but more importantly, he had to win quickly.

There are many reasons.

The big one, for example, is the worry that the reinforcements from the Marshal's Mansion will cause extra problems, and the secondary reason is that Oirat's food and supplies are not enough.

There was even the darkest psychological reason: After pulling Liu Chengzong's army [-] steps eastward, Guoshi Khan discovered that the corpses of mules, horses and camels that died in the whole war were all wrapped in the backs of the Han army, and his heart ached.

There is no winner tonight, so the meat will belong to the Han army.

It's a pity that Liu Chengzong on the opposite side also found Guoshi Khan, and he also saw the heavy cavalry prepared by Guoshi Khan.

At this time, both of them saw that the other party had a big card in their hands, and they were waiting for this card to be played before launching a countermeasure, otherwise they would be at a disadvantage.

Neither of them wanted to suffer, so they were waiting for the other to make the first move.

The difference is that Liu Chengzong is not in a hurry, he is even willing to wait a little longer, wait until Huang Shengxiao reaches the flank, and use artillery to attract attention for a while before launching an attack.

It's just that Guoshi Khan and Liu Chengzong didn't know that an army of more than 500 people dared not raise fire, just two miles southeast of the battlefield, and walked north quietly with their horseshoes wrapped.

The dusty Beetail Needle lay on the hill and looked west. Under the dark night, the two lines were like constricting constrictors... He had never seen two armies fight like this in his life, slowly Swallowing, his words trembled unconsciously, he turned his head and looked to the side: "Brother Zhao, do you really want to charge?"

Zhao Keke was two years younger than Bee Tail Needle, but he was used to being called that. He couldn't lie on the ground with one hand, but squatted beside him, looking at the entangled silhouettes of the two armies and letting out a sigh.

The situation is pretty much the same as he expected.

Zhao Ke pointed at the enemy formation with his arm covered with armguards, and said conclusively: "It's not dangerous."

Beetail Needle was already thirsty just watching, and crawled back from the sand dune. When his body was covered by the sand dune, he spit out a mouthful, wiped his foot with the sole of his boot, and said, "Crazy man, Wang Huo used to put it on How many people does it take to form such a large army?"

Zhao Keke looked at him, knowing that his old partner had panicked, and he couldn't go to the battle without the determination to win.

He didn't answer the question, just took advantage of the situation and sat down on the back of the sand dune, his eyes reflected the moon and the stars in the sky, bright like wolves, and asked without beginning and end: "Do you know Cao Yao, Yang Yao, Wang Wenxiu?" ?”

The bee tail needle glanced at Zhao Changchang, how could he not know these people, the three of them are the generals of the Marshal's Mansion.

Zhao Keke snorted and said, "They all came from the top 5000 members of the management team. Who can be better than the other? I just saw that the enemy's formation has at least five rows of horizontal lines in front of it. Calculated like this, there are at least [-] people in the army formation. "

"The army of ten thousand people is held back by the handsome man, and our opponent is only a few hundred people in the army, so my plan is to divide the army into two groups."

Bee Tail Needle's eyes widened. He really wanted to believe Zhao Changchang's words, but no matter how he heard them, they were all lunatics' words, so he could only be disbelieving: "Only 500 people, and the troops will be divided into two groups?"

"Are you afraid of being fooled? We only hit the teams of the Chinese army and killed the national division. We have already left before the front line has come."

Beetail Needle asked: "Then why are the soldiers divided into two groups, and one team responds?"

"No need to answer, I will bring two hundred cavalry to assassinate the national division, and you will bring three hundred cavalry, pick some veterans who can speak Mongolian language, encircle both sides from the central army, kill the messengers, kill the officers, and kill all the active ones, and head north and south after slaughtering." Running on both sides, shouting that Khan is dead, even 10 of them have to be paralyzed here."

Zhao Keke said, nodding his head one after another, saying: "Even if you didn't kill the national teacher, it would be a great achievement to disturb the enemy army."

In fact, what Bee Tail Needle did was just to convince himself that the people had already arrived here, and the more than [-] riders under his command were all heroes eager for meritorious service, and he knew that he could not turn back.

"Then I'll go to assassinate the national teacher, you can speak Mongolian, go kill the messenger." Bee Tail Needle felt that rushing to attack the national teacher was still too dangerous, and said to Zhao Kechang: "We will meet in the army of the handsome man."

Zhao Keke knew what he was thinking, so he smiled softly and didn't respond.

He got up and patted the dust off his body, walked to his horse, called a soldier to help him put on the cloth armor, fastened his waist guard, hung the belt on the right side, and rode on the horse with difficulty with his hands and wrists.

The unhealed fracture of his right forearm hurt so hard that he took the spear hanging the square flag from the soldier under his command with a grim look, clamped the spear under his ribs, his right forearm and his right forearm together, and bit The teeth are tightly wrapped with the carrying cloth little by little until the flag spear is fixed on the right side of the body.

He looked at the bee-tail needle, and asked very seriously: "Even if you lose your right hand, do you really think those Wala Tartars can beat me with one hand?"

Standing under the horse, Beetail Needle sighed, and the expression on his face was self-evident: "There are many people who can fight, and survival does not necessarily depend on being able to fight."

Zhao Ke could sneer when he heard this, and with his shoulders sinking slightly, the flag spear swung slightly, and said: "When the national teacher is killed, let the best craftsman in Hehuang make a wooden hand and put it on a three-eyed blunderbuss!"

At this moment, more intense shouts of killing suddenly came from a distance, and the sentry who was watching the formation on the sand dunes ran down and hurriedly reported: "General Zhang, Mr. Zhao Baizong, the enemy's central army is heavy!" Riding a dash!"

Zhao Kechang hurriedly rode his horse forward, and with just one glance, he saw rows of black shadows breaking through to the Chinese Army in the Marshal's Mansion under the reflection of the campfire of the Chinese Army.

Suddenly, a flash of light burst out in the darkness in the north of the battlefield, and it was a cannon lurking on the edge of the battlefield.

The sound of the cannon was so abrupt that Zhao Keke, who was on horseback, was stunned. He frowned and looked to the north for a long time. After a short pause, there were continuous red lights flashing in the north, and the continuous sound of cannons Rolling in the sky like thunder.

No one knows where the shells landed, only that the evenly matched battlefield suddenly became chaotic.

"It's the cannon of the handsome man!"

This made him not surprised but pleased, he reined in his horse and turned his head and said: "Okay! The opportunity has come, the enemy's commander and guards have lost more than half... Zuo Sihu Ben's front and rear headquarters will follow me on horseback and charge into battle. today!"

Beetail Needle also raised her fist to encourage herself, then gnashed her teeth and got on the horse, pulled out the spear stuck in the sand, and said to the left and right: "Listen up, brothers from the left, middle and right departments, follow me to get on the horse and disturb the enemy. Kill everyone!"

On the front line of the battle, the Heshuo special heavy infantry in full armor formed a column, and did not dodge or avoid the arrows and spears that were shot, and slammed into the line with shields and short soldiers.

At this moment, Heshuote's long-stored strength was completely released in front of the formation. The heavy column was like a hammer, relying on brute force to smash a gap in the formation, and then separated to the left and right sides, sweeping the formation.

The muffled Mongolian horns hovered over the battlefield with one after another overtones, and the shepherds on the front line were encouraged almost at the same time.

For a while, Liu Chengzong's front line was cut off from the middle by heavy troops, and all his ministries were also in danger under the strong attack of twice his own troops.

After the gap opened by the heavy soldiers, the sound of horseshoes pounded, and the armored heavy cavalry galloped like a monster in the shadows, and directly hit the second line of defense.

The second line of defense is the former Qianzong Han Shipan adopted the suggestion of Wang Chengen, the former Lintao commander-in-chief, and deployed a reserve team of 120 soldiers from a hundred regiments.

Seeing the fierce heavy cavalry rushing, Han Shipan ordered to shoot at the first time, and the people ignored the practice of shooting in bursts, and the guns fired randomly.

Then the guards with five spears in the front row formed a horizontal formation, put their spears on the ground in the middle to meet the impact, and the left and right wings launched a countercharge forward in an attempt to surround the lagging enemy.

The owner's horse, which was shot down by the musket, ran back and hit the heavy cavalry of his own side. However, the heavy cavalry was in a column of four cavalry, one step apart. Enter Wang Chengen's horizontal team.

The spear is broken, and the horse is stabbed.

The ferocious heavy cavalry fell to the ground like huge boulders, rolled and knocked over the soldiers, and then the two sides drew out short soldiers and even wrestled with bare hands.

The two-winged guards who rushed out more than ten steps did not have time to change formation, so they poked their spears obliquely at the heavy cavalry galloping behind. The horizontal team with guns scattered, and the trend continued to attack the Chinese army.

But a brief hysteresis works just as well.

Liu Chengzong and more guards had already got on their horses behind the second line of defense. The guards lined up horizontally and held spears, and charged again and again at the rushing Heshuo special heavy cavalry.

On the position of the Central Army in the Marshal's Mansion, there were the screams of broken spears and dead horses everywhere, mixed with the sound of metal and stone colliding with armor.

At this moment, the Mongolian language suddenly spread from the east side of the battlefield, and groups of cavalry rushed left and right behind the battlefield, and the people shouted the same: "The Great Khan is dead! The Great Khan is dead! "

The shouts one after another made Liu Chengzong, who was holding a spear and was about to lead the crowd to fight, was stunned for a moment, until he saw the enemy's front line rioting from south to north, and even those Heshuo special heavy cavalry who rushed to the formation began to turn their heads to their own side. Assault in front of the formation, and then he suddenly came back to his senses.

The situation on the battlefield was reversed in an instant, Liu Chengzong reined in his horse suddenly, and ordered to the left and right: "Pass my order, beat the drums and march!"

The drumsticks slammed down, and the huge battle drum echoed and made a loud noise, as if it hit everyone's heart. There were two more thumps, and the frontline soldiers could hear them clearly this time. The soldiers holding spears to stabilize the front line all moved forward Take a step forward and strike with a spear.

The panicked Heshuote herdsmen then retreated, the Marshal's Army took another step forward, and they took another step back until someone was stabbed or tripped over their own legs during the retreat, got up and fled backwards, throwing their weapons .

A roll of ten rolls, and a group of ten rolls, under the impact of the news of the death of Guoshi Khan, groups of Heshuote herdsmen lost the courage to give up the front line, and fled towards the Yellow River in embarrassment under the night.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)