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Chapter 491
"The Ming army is waiting for infantry and artillery." Fan Wencheng looked ahead with a blank expression.

Yue Tuo narrowed his eyes, and said after a long while, "As expected, infantry is needed to attack fortified positions."

Fan Wencheng didn't speak anymore, but he was very clear in his heart that resisting the Ming army with trenches and wooden fences would only be delayed in the end, and could not be completely stopped at all.

The morale of the Ming army was like a rainbow, the soldiers were strong and the horses were strong, and the steady advance was like Mount Tai pressing down on the top.Houjin, who was short of troops and supplies, was indeed hard to resist.

Originally, Fan Wencheng and Li Yongfang still had a fluke mentality, thinking that the Ming army would stop operations as winter approached, and wait for Houjin to weaken even more in a state of lack of food and grass supplies.

But the full-scale launch of the Ming army shattered their illusions.The main force came from the front to oppress, and Liaobei, Liaoxi, and Liaodong also launched an offensive, forming a joint attack on Liaoshen.

It's not that the high-ranking officials of Houjin didn't think about concentrating their forces and defeating them all in the Battle of Salhu.

However, each group of the Ming army was not easy to defeat. The tight oppression also made Hou Jin lose the time needed for mobile operations.

You go to fight Dongjiang Town in Liaodong, what will happen to the main force of the Ming army?Across hundreds of miles, and then defeating Dongjiang Town and returning, the main force of the Ming army will stand still and wait foolishly?
What's more, the probability of defeating Dongjiang Town is not high, and if it falls into a hard battle, it will be another unbearable consumption.

The Ming army used force to overwhelm people, military strength, firepower, material resources, financial resources, mobilization power... They all had the upper hand in everything, so they used the simplest and rude horizontal push. How do you think this battle will be fought?
The gap is too big!Fan Wencheng also had to lament in his heart, what kind of strategy, what kind of strategy, under the guns and artillery of the Ming army, it will not work!

Of course, Fan Wencheng and others will not understand the gap of hundreds of years, and the gap of a new era, let alone understand it.In the face of absolute strength, Hou Jin's stubborn resistance was futile.

Not only them, even Xiong Tingbi and other Ming army generals did not really realize that the gap was so huge before.But after continuous fighting, especially after the decisive battle in Haicheng, their confidence and understanding suddenly soared.

Although it was still relatively calm when advancing, the Ming army already had the belief that it would win when facing the enemy.

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Hetuala City.

Facing Mao Chenglu's mixed cavalry, Liu Xingzuo and Kong Youde's mixed cavalry, and the Ming army that infiltrated in a small group and then gathered together, Azig and Du Du took the initiative to attack regardless of their inferior strength.

This was a forced and helpless choice. Azig left a small number of troops to bluff the banner at Yaful Pass. He led 5000 troops and hurried back to Hetuala, preparing to join forces with Du Du. Deal with enemies outside Ravenfal Pass.

To put it bluntly, Azig wanted to make a time difference.It can also be said that this is a kind of tactic of defeating everyone.

The Ming army had [-] to [-] soldiers. After several battles, Jiannu's strength was reduced to only [-] to [-], which was almost a one-to-two disadvantage.

But under the current situation, there is no room for Azig to have other choices.Either the whole army will stick to Hetuala and send an urgent letter to Liaoshen for help; or they will fight desperately, or they will abandon the city and leave.

Obviously, it was too passive to wait for help. The news of Haicheng's fiasco had already been sent, and they expected that the Liaoshen reinforcements might not arrive soon.

It would be a pleasure to abandon the city and go away, and still retain his vitality, but Azig didn't want to discredit and embarrass his brother just after he inherited the Khan throne.

Therefore, he chose to fight desperately to survive.This is also in line with his character, violent and reckless.

Du Du also lacked confidence in defending the city, and the two hit it off, leaving only a few people in the city, and the brigade dispatched to start a field battle with the Ming army outside the city.

In the past few years, Azig and Du Du, the Jiannu generals who have not fought many battles with the Ming army, can be ranked.It is precisely because of this that I feel that field battles can win more with less.

Azige was defeated, but it was in Weizi Valley; Du Du was also defeated by the Ming army, but he was ambushed, and because of the weak division of troops.

Therefore, according to the battle plan of Azig and Dudu, taking advantage of the maneuverability of the cavalry, they each led their troops to intersperse and detour, and took the lead in launching an attack on the Ming army.

"Kill, kill!" Du Du led [-] cavalry to pounce on the right-wing infantry of the Ming army. If they could break through the flank, they would be able to attack the Ming army in the middle with Azig's troops.

Three thousand infantrymen of the Ming army formed a battle formation. The first three rows squatted, kneeled, and stood up and raised their guns to aim.

Azig led the main force to hold his position, and the city of Hetuala was a few miles behind.

He dispatched a thousand cavalry, galloping obliquely, past the front of the Ming army, shooting a rain of arrows, trying to disrupt the Ming army's formation and lure the Ming army to shoot.

"Boom!" Facing the Jiannu who rushed to the formation, the first three rows of Ming army musketeers obeyed the order and fired a round of volleys.

Three rows of salvos, the lead bullets are as dense as rain, which is several times more powerful than a row of shots, and the lethality is also greatly increased.

The Jiannu people who were galloping in front turned their backs on their backs and fell down in a large area, screaming and wailing, and the neighing of war horses, mixed sounds.

The three platoons of the Ming army did not reload the ammunition after finishing shooting. They each stepped forward a few steps and raised their bayonets in a squatting and kneeling position, forming a dense forest of gunpoints in front of the formation.

"Fire!" The comrades in front flashed out of the shooting range, the musketeers behind raised their guns to aim, and the officer swung his saber down, white smoke rose, and another volley fired.

"Fire!" Another row of musketeers came out, raised their guns and shot lead bullets at the enemy.

Jiannu lost a lot, but they were still brave. Those who fell off their horses and survived raised their weapons, screaming and continuing to charge; when the cavalrymen who were not hit approached the battle formation of the Ming army, they first shot arrows and then drew their weapons , and galloped the horse.

War horses are intelligent animals. Facing the forest formed by the knife points in front of them, they instinctively stop, jump, change direction, and refuse to be manipulated by the rider.

The horses that rushed to the front and couldn't stop in time either gave a long hiss, their front hooves flew into the air, and stopped abruptly to stand up; or they couldn't stop in time, and ran into the bayonet forest.

The impact of the horses hurt the Ming army holding bayonets to block the enemy, but there was only a small gap in the bayonet forest and was not broken by the cavalry.

The soldiers of the Ming army stepped forward with guns to fill the gap, and the bayonets moved forward to keep the bayonet forest intact.The soldiers of the Ming army who were killed by bows and arrows were quickly replaced.

The muskets fired round after round, surprisingly fast.Battle formations rather than line tactics, heavy but inconvenient to move, but the continuity of firepower is the best.

The rate of fire of the flintlock muskets, coupled with the bursts of fire from several rows of Ming soldiers, made the guns roar, as if there was no pause in the middle.

Both sides are paying casualties, but the cavalry charging the infantry battle formation is neither the leader of Jiannu, nor can it shake the violent fire of the flintlock.

Under the command of the flag and drums, the Ming army infantry battle formation in the middle advanced and charged forward, with an obvious purpose, preparing to flank Dudu's cavalry.

(End of this chapter)