I want to be emperor

Chapter 60 Cavalry Attack
When Blind Wang was speaking, Luo Zhixue also saw the abnormality of the Ming army on the right line of defense.

After the defeat of the county warriors in front, these Ming army soldiers did not retreat temporarily but launched an attack without any pause.

This means that the Ming army on the opposite side has made great determination, even if it is to rush up with soldiers to fight, it will fight on the right line of defense.

The Ming army began to work hard!

It's just that Luo Zhixue didn't understand the Ming army on the opposite side. If he was the commander of the Ming army on the opposite side, let alone let the precious soldiers charge directly, he would not even fight the second general attack.

If it were Luo Zhixue who came by himself, he would send people out of the mountain to continue recruiting reinforcements, whether it was soldiers or county warriors who could be used as cannon fodder, the more the better.

Then find a way to get a few artillery pieces over. Although it is difficult to bring in heavy artillery weighing a thousand kilograms in this mountainous area, some artillery pieces weighing several hundred kilograms can still be brought in with a little effort.

As for the pulling of the horse and the like, this is purely unnecessary worry.

As long as people can walk, a large number of people can be dispatched directly to carry the artillery in directly.

A man like Wang Jida could enter the mountain in a sedan chair, but he couldn't resist the entry of a cannon weighing several hundred kilograms.

It's just that they have no mobility. However, they don't need much mobility to attack Songshan. They can wait patiently for ten days and a half months for the artillery to arrive.

While waiting for reinforcements and artillery, at the same time, you can continue to send elites and the interception team of the Baoxiang Battalion to fight, and even design an ambush of the interception team in the Baoxiang Battalion.

As long as there are a few successful ambushes, the elites on the Baoxiangying side will lose a lot and it will be impossible to continue to maintain a continuous blockade of the mountains on the left and right.

At that time, it is completely possible to occupy a trail into the mountain and send a partial division to go directly behind the Songshan defense line.

Don't say anything about front and rear flank attacks, just cutting off the connection between Songshan's front line and Songshan Village behind is enough.

If there is a multi-pronged approach, it is entirely possible for the Ming army to block the retreat of the Songshan bandit army, not to mention cutting off the logistics supply line of the Songshan bandit army, but also to block the retreat of the bandit army.

Wait until the reinforcements and artillery are together, and then make a frontal breakthrough.

The only troublesome thing about the whole process is that it takes longer and requires more resources.

However, this is just Luo Zhixue's idea of ​​setting himself up as the commander of the Ming army.

However, the commander of the Ming army on the opposite side didn't seem to think so. After the first general attack failed, after only three days of detour and harassment operations, he couldn't wait to launch the second round of general attack.

Moreover, the general attack was launched without reinforcements.

Is it the opposite commander Taicai?
Or does he have great confidence in the soldiers under his command?
Luo Zhixue didn't know at all, Huang Guangmao didn't think about launching a second general attack so soon, but Wang Jida kept pressing him.

In desperation, he could only launch a second general attack.

Even in order to avoid the situation where he suffered great casualties and was unsuccessful after launching a general attack, he even spent all his money.

Just count on taking Songshan even if it costs a lot of casualties, so as to avoid the situation of light loss but no gain.

To put it bluntly, Huang Guangmao wanted to grit his teeth and endure a wave of casualties before taking Songshan, so that Wang Jida continued to force him to send troops to die, so that it became a refueling tactic.

Although Luo Zhixue was unaware of the internal contradictions in the Ming army, this did not prevent him from commanding the troops to fight and causing a large number of casualties to the attacking Ming army.

Even though the defensive force on the right side was not much at the beginning, there were only 30 ordinary bandit troops belonging to the right army, of which 60 were recruits who had not been recruited for a long time, and the remaining [-] or [-] people only trained one or two The soldiers of the month.

It is naturally impossible for the right army alone to block the attack of the main force of the Ming army.

But Luo Zhixue quickly sent reinforcements to the right line of defense, including three teams from the supply battalion and a team from the cavalry post.

Among them, the fourth team of the supply battalion is quite special. The soldiers in this team are all surrendered prisoners of war and old thieves, that is, the original Ta Tianhu's subordinates.

These old thieves are actually experienced in many battles, and their equipment may be a bit poor, but their combat skills are not bad at all, and many of them can also bend their bows and shoot arrows.

With the support of the reinforcements, the density of arrows on the right line of defense was greatly increased. After more than a hundred soldiers of the Ming army charged, when they finally climbed to the fence 30 meters outside the wooden wall and other obstacles, No less than 20 people were killed or injured.

At first glance, it seems that there were only about 20 casualties, which seems to be a small number.

But the problem is that this Ming army has only a hundred soldiers in total, and 20 people were killed or injured on the way to charge, and the casualty rate has reached 20.00%.

If it were those county warriors, they would have fled long ago, that is to say, these were all soldiers, and Huang Guangmao had also given them a death order before the battle. They must hit the top of the mountain on the right, and they are not allowed to retreat without an order.

In addition, although their losses were not small, there were also archers and musketeers among them who continued to fight back, causing certain deaths and injuries to the soldiers of the rural camp on the top of the mountain.

That's why I gritted my teeth and supported it!

However, when Baoxiangying pulled out a captured 30-jin cannon and fired a round of artillery at the Ming army [-] meters away, it was immediately covered by dense arrows and more than ten people were killed or injured. People, they finally couldn't hold it anymore.

At this time, their casualty rate has reached more than 30.00%. Rao, they are all recruited by the battalion sentry system, and the serious soldiers among the officers and soldiers can't hold on.

I don't know who ran first. It didn't take long for the Ming army to let go and run down the mountain.

Huang Guangmao at the foot of the mountain saw this scene, sighed and closed his eyes.

There is no way to fight this battle!
I even sent a hundred soldiers to launch a strong attack, but was still repelled by the opponent, how can I fight.

And Wang Jida next to him looked even uglier.

"Whoever told them to retreat is a bunch of trash. Why did they quit when they were so close to being killed?" Wang Jida scolded him on the spot.

In his field of vision, the attacking officers and soldiers on the right had already killed them, and they were only seven or eight feet away from the wooden wall on the top of the bandit army.

It's just such a small distance, and he rushed up after just two steps.

But these damned wastes retreated.

Huang Guangmao ignored Wang Jida's words. Although he did not give the retreat order himself, he did not blame the soldiers in front.

This time the attack went to this point, and more than [-] people were killed or injured even in the battle. They had already tried their best.

If we continue to fight hard, there will be no second possibility other than the annihilation of the entire army.

Huang Guangmao didn't blame them.

After sighing, Huang Guangmao ordered the left and front central troops to retreat as well. Since the right attack had failed, the left and front feints were unnecessary.

After Huang Guangmao's retreat order was issued, the Ming troops in front retreated to the rear one by one dejectedly.

Especially the soldiers of the Ming army who retreated from the mountain on the right were all downcast, and many of them even had expressions of fear.

When they ran down the mountain before, they were covered by several rounds of bows and arrows and killed or injured seven or eight people.

Up to now, there are only more than 50 soldiers left in their original [-]-strong army, which is full of one sentry.

This morale plummeted to a low level, even walking with his head down.

The scene of the Ming army retreating one after another was also noticed by Luo Zhixue and others.

Luo Zhixue looked at the Ming army retreating from the mountains on the left and right sides one after another, and looked at the enemy's central army that was also retreating in the front valley, and even the formation was gone.

After turning quickly in his mind for a few seconds, he said: "The cavalry sentry sent out to chase down the enemy's rout!"

Now the enemy is in a state of retreat, and their morale is extremely low, and the Ming army in the front position in the middle is scattered, and most of them are county warriors who have no combat power.

This is an opportunity that has never been seen in the past few days, an opportunity for one's own cavalry to attack.

Behind Luo Zhixue, blind Wang immediately said: "This subordinate takes orders!"

Immediately afterwards, he got on his horse and ran all the way to the cavalry post on standby in the open space below the valley.

Today's cavalry post still has two teams of sixty cavalry, and the other team, the third team, was directly transferred to the right side as archers.

When Luo Zhixue gave the order, several orderlies beside him also gave the order to the third team of the cavalry sentry on the top of the mountain on the right side to attack by means of semaphore.

Immediately, the cavalry of the third team quickly ran towards the valley clearing, where there were friendly troops from the two teams and their horses.

Due to time constraints, Wang Xiazi rode his horse to reach the two teams of cavalry at the cavalry post, and glanced at the third team of cavalry on the right.

It is relatively convenient for them to maneuver behind the defense line, because the valley and the defense lines on the hills on both sides are connected. In addition to the wooden wall, there is naturally a flat road behind the wooden wall for passage.

In addition, the Songshan defense line is actually not that big overall, only a few hundred meters in total.

It is more convenient for the cavalry of the third team to run away for quick transfer.

Blind Wang didn't wait long, and soon he got the third team of cavalry. He arranged the third team of cavalry who ran all the way, and many people were still panting.

As for the first team to take the lead, of course.

After everyone got on their horses and got ready, blind Wang waved to Wang Dazhuang who was stationed in front of the wooden wall of the canyon.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Dazhuang ordered his soldiers to open the heavy wooden door.

Just a few seconds later, blind man Wang took the lead and rushed out with more than 90 cavalry!
On the opposite side, Huang Guangmao, who was in a bad mood because of the failure of the second attack, was still thinking about how to dissuade Wang Jida and let him continue the strong attack, and how to appease the seventeen o'clock who fell to the bottom because of the failure of the attack and heavy losses. .

Suddenly, an unusual rumbling sound was heard from the other side of the valley!
He frowned when he heard the sound, and then looked towards the valley.

In his sight, a cavalry rushed out from the valley, and in front of these cavalry was the chaotic Ming army who had no formation at all in retreat, and was dominated by county heroes.

For a moment, his eyes were a little dull, and there were only three words left in his mind: It's over...

(End of this chapter)