Chapter 067 Battle of Gaizhou III
'Woo...'
The melodious sound of horns sounded, which meant that one party was about to attack.
Chen Cao placed a grand master's chair not far in front of the artillery array. He imitated the way civil servants led the army in the late Ming Dynasty and sat there with a golden sword, and then commanded all directions.
"Master..." E Yidu's trusted servant came over on horseback, his face full of anxiety: "Master Da Qi..."
Seeing the look of his trusted servant, Er Yidu knew what he meant and nodded: "I understand, let's go down." After saying that, he stared ahead and said: "Attack."
After receiving the order, Han Dai drew his sword, shouted loudly, and rushed towards Chen Cao's formation with three thousand cavalry.
Chen Cao was fascinated by what he saw, and then he heard Zhao Xin say: "Uncle, the Tatar cavalry divided into three groups and attacked our two wings."
"As expected," Chen Cao said with a smile. This group of people only knew this kind of tactics, and in Chen Cao's opinion it was a bit old-fashioned: "Send an order to the armies on both wings. No matter how the Tatars try to attack, they can only respond with bows and arrows." , do not go outside the traffic formation."
"yes..."
"Ulala..."
Han Dai led more than a thousand cavalry towards the trench in front of him. The two Tang Kainian brothers in the trench finally fought for the position of the vanguard. Although they lost more than 300 brothers on the night of the night attack, fortunately, the formation was still intact. Even if it is complete, it is more than enough for more than 700 people to fight against these more than 1,000 cavalry.
"We're close. Listen carefully. My uncle said, it doesn't matter if you run out of ammunition. I'm afraid you can't afford it. Even if everyone dies, they have to be replaced by a Tatar cavalry. My uncle said that the slave population is limited and we can't afford it." This is a war of attrition, give me a hard beating." Tang Kainian said loudly as he walked back and forth in the trench.
Tang Yannian looked up and saw Han Dai's cavalry getting closer and closer, so he drew his sword and shouted: "The 1,000th household, free fire."
"Bang bang bang..."
There was a loud sound of gunfire, and the soldiers of the 1,000th household in the trench raised their heads and fired. They perfectly avoided the attacks of Tatar arrows, meteor hammers and other projectile weapons in the trench. The trajectory of the lead bullets followed the low angle. From time to time, the horses were hit, and those Tatars fell off their horses, only to be trampled to death by the hooves of the horses galloping behind them.
Han Dai was horrified. If the fighting continued like this, not many of his thousand men would be able to return, so he shouted: "Throw all the meteor hammers and throwing spears into the horse trap."
This order is really embarrassing. The best impact of throwing objects on a high-speed horse is to attack distant ground targets. The trench is underground. Anyone who can throw something into it is the blessing of their ancestors.
Because Tang Yannian was the closest to the tunnel, a lucky javelin was inserted half a step in front of his eyes, and the rest fell either in front of or behind the tunnel.
"Withdraw..." Han Dai finally couldn't hold on anymore. He had only three hundred cavalrymen. In this charge, he lost nearly seven hundred people, but most of them were injured and died.
Er Yidu looked at the battlefield from a distance and saw that there were not many of Han Dai's thousand cavalry left, and his face turned dark. However, what made him happy was that many of the cavalry who had been separated to attack the two wings had broken through the car formation and were heading towards The Ming army's main formation attacked.
But actually this is the most dangerous.
Once the cavalry slows down, it becomes a moving target. There are too few of them, and it is simply a dream to break through the Ming army's formation.
But this is a fighter jet.
He also pulled out his long sword and said, "The whole army attacks..."
The mixed attack of infantry and cavalry depends on the quality and number of the army. Chen Caoman's full attack counts more than 20,000 people, and Eyidu's side has 70,000. In terms of numbers, it is a crushing strength.
"Uncle, the entire Tatar army has attacked." Zhao Xin said.
Chen Cao was waiting for this moment. He immediately stood up and stood on the chair and looked out: "Okay, let's order the artillery array, the elements will load and fire."
"yes..."
E Yidu rode his horse halfway when he heard the sound of thunder, so he shouted: "The Ming army fired artillery, everyone should take shelter."
After the muffled thunder, the shells came galloping along the parabola.
The Tatars attacked in groups, so the first thing they fired were solid bullets. It is said that one cannon cannot damage ten miles, but one mile is enough.
Many of Li Yongfang's 40,000 troops were Ming troops who surrendered during the Fushun and Sarhu battles. Seeing that many of them had been beaten to pulp by artillery shells, they were too frightened to move forward. He rushed forward slowly and leisurely.
E Yidu and others rode their war horses and rushed out violently. At this moment, the muffled thunder sounded again. Because they saw the Tatars scattering, all ten shots were fired at this moment.
At least twenty people were killed in each explosion. Although there were not many people, it was a kind of shock. Although those veterans of Liaodong surrendered to the enemy and treason, they were quite familiar with their own country's firearms.
Seeing this situation, they all turned around and ran away. Li Yongfang was horrified when he saw this and immediately stopped his troops to stop the soldiers who were about to run. In his heart, he was even more determined to send these people to Hetuala to the armored men after this victory. Repair the house.
Chen Cao looked over from a distance and saw the large number of them, so he ordered: "Send an order to Guanhai Guard and Yangzhou Guard to guard the two wings, and the remaining guards will go out to kill the enemy."
"yes..."
"My uncle has given orders, Guanhai Guard and Yangzhou Guard will defend the two wings, while the rest will go out to kill the enemy."
The Tatar cavalry was beaten to pieces. The current situation is a great opportunity for Chen Cao: "Zhao Xin, when the charge begins, keep an eye on Wan Qing. Have you seen him? E Yidu's position was exposed to me. To capture the thief, capture the king first and kill E Yidu. These tens of thousands of people will be destroyed without attack."
"yes..."
Wan Qing's name on the Jurchen side is Malha, and he is E Yidu's most trusted servant, second only to his trusted servant.
At this moment, Er Yidu had already led his troops to attack Chen Cao's formation, but what awaited them was a ruthless blow from musketry.
"Bang bang bang..."
There was a burst of gunfire, and the Tatars who were the first to rush fell to the ground and wailed. If they were lucky, they died immediately. Of course, there were many surrendered soldiers mixed in, and because there were Jurchens watching around them, they could only hit them with their scalps. Go up.
finally...
The first flintlock gun with an exploding chamber appeared in the Qianhu Team in the Tang Dynasty. Due to long-term shooting, the heat of the barrel could no longer adapt to the impact of burning gun/powder, resulting in the flintlock in the hand of a right guard soldier. When the gun was fired and ready to be loaded, the too-heated barrel ignited the paper-cased bullet and exploded the chamber. The position was at the rear sight, which is the weakest part. The barrel was forged from thousand-layer steel, so there would be no problem. .
"Brother, what if everything explodes if this continues?" Tang Yannian frowned and asked anxiously.
Tang Kainian couldn't care about so much and scolded sternly: "If the barrel is exploded, fix the bayonet. If the barrel is not exploded, continue shooting. Don't let the Tatars break through the formation and return to your position."
"Hey..." Tang Yannian was scolded, and then went to give instructions in despair.
The right guard's muskets poured lead bullets at the Tatar infantry like a honeycomb. Few people attacking from the front could get close to the trench. Under such strong suppression, the Tatar infantry, which was not very determined in the first place, A huge rout began.
"Run quickly..."
It's important to escape..."
E Yidu's supervising team was behind him. Seeing this, he immediately drew his sword and chopped down a fleeing soldier, shouting: "Whoever dares to run will die."
Going forward is death, and retreating is also death. It is better to go forward and rush in and still survive.
When this situation happened, the Tatar infantry made up their minds to charge forward.
"Uncle, I saw Wan Qing." Xin Zhao shouted while standing on his horse.
Chen Cao always remembered Wan Qing's words, and imitated Zhao Xin's example and stood on the horse. Looking in the direction of Zhao Xin's finger, he saw Wan Qing standing on horseback beside a group of Tatar generals. The old Tatar, wearing yellow cloth armor and a lightning rod on his head, was wielding a sword and commanding. In addition, Wan Qing said that E Yidu was old, and his white beard was fluttering in the wind. Chen Cao was overjoyed: "Quick, let's attack Call the gunnery commander for me."
Ning Guoxing, a member of the artillery team, came with his mortar team and saluted Chen Cao.
Chen Cao was very anxious, fearing that he would lose his target: "Don't let him come, come up quickly."
Ning Guoxing stood on the horse with the help of Zhao Xin, looked at Chen Cao's hand, and then frowned: "Uncle, is that the man with the bright yellow helmet? But there are all of them."
Chen Cao frowned, too, then pointed at Wan Qing and said, "Did you see that round-faced man? He's the one next to them."
There were many people around E Yidu, but Wan Qing was right next to E Yidu, and her dark round face was unusually eye-catching. Ning Guoxing said: "I saw it."
As he spoke, Ning Guoxing used the method in the drill, raised the thumb of his right hand, squinted his eyes and pointed at his forehead: "The distance is seven hundred steps, order, adjust the muzzle."
The soldier beside the horse immediately turned the small rotating rocker on the mortar base and tilted the muzzle: "Report to your lord, the distance adjustment has been completed."
"put..."
Another soldier pointed a gun at the muzzle and put it in.
Boom...
The sound was not loud and the smoke was not loud. Chen Cao could see with his naked eyes a small black dot flying quickly towards his forehead.
Er Yidu was giving instructions when suddenly an explosion occurred a dozen steps to his right front.
He was so frightened that he ducked his head to avoid the impact, and more than a dozen people fell down at the impact point, no longer breathing.
Everyone was shocked and pale.
"Ning Guoxing, you damn missed the target." Chen Cao cursed angrily.
Ning Guoxing quickly compared again and shouted: "Seven hundred and fifty steps away, turn right three times, fire..."
"put..."
Boom...
Wan Qing was a little suspicious when the first explosion occurred, but seeing E Yidu being so panicked, he felt a little prepared in his heart, so he deliberately rode his horse almost five horse positions away from E Yidu. At this moment, he couldn't help but look up. Seeing a black dot flying towards him, Wan Qing in the sky was horrified. He immediately got off his horse and blocked the horse in front of him.
Er Yidu was giving instructions when suddenly a loud noise exploded in his ears and he lost consciousness.
Li Yongfang was knocked off his horse by the air wave, and his mouth and nose suddenly began to bleed.
This shot was very accurate, and the impact point was five steps to the right of Eyidu. The explosion at this position was enough to knock over all the people ten steps around.
Li Yongfang was lucky, and he was not very close to E Yidu. E Yidu was protected by several sons and cronies, but it didn't help.
Chen Cao was so happy when he saw his forehead was blown off his horse that he couldn't help but hammer his hand, and then said: "Ning Guoxing, you did a great job."
Ning Guoxing also watched the target man fall from his horse, then dismounted and handed him over: "It's just a humble duty."
The workshop developed a total of ten mortars. This alone took almost four months. They were very precious. Now that the goal had been achieved, Chen Cao could no longer waste it, so he said: "Take back the mortars and continue." Go to the gun emplacement and wait for orders."
"yes..."
"Ama...Ama..." Eyidu's thirteenth son, Chao Haer, was seriously injured and dragged his left hand that was injured by shrapnel after the explosion to Eyidu's side.
At this moment, Fore Yi was lying on the ground, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and blood was coming out from his right side of his ribs. With the medical technology of this era, Fore Yi was unlikely to survive.
Liu Aita led his troops to cover the attack on both wings. The speed was not very fast, and he felt like a foreign worker. Seeing the chaos on Eyidu's side, he immediately ordered the entire army to stop the attack.
Chen Cao struck while the iron was hot, mounted his war horse, drew his sword and ordered: "Send the order, the whole army attacks, Zhao Xin, let them shout to me, they are all dead. Anyone who surrenders to the Tatars in my Ming army, as long as they surrender, I will kill you." Assure them that the court will let bygones be bygones."
"Yes..." Zhao Xin handed over his hand and rode away.
Chen Cao raised his sword: "Comrades, the time has come to make great achievements. Beat the drums and attack with the whole army..."
"Kill..."
The Ming army, which had been blindly defensive before, suddenly rushed out of the ditch and formation at the moment the drums sounded, and rushed towards the opponent with spears and knives.
The momentum is like a rainbow.
"Uncle Dingwu of the Ming Dynasty has issued an order. Ming army officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Tatars must listen carefully. As long as you surrender your weapons, the imperial court will let bygones be bygones..."
"Uncle Dingwu of the Ming Dynasty has issued an order. Ming army officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Tatars must listen carefully. As long as you surrender your weapons, the imperial court will let bygones be bygones..."
"Uncle Dingwu of the Ming Dynasty has issued an order. Ming army officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Tatars must listen carefully. As long as you surrender your weapons, the imperial court will let bygones be bygones..."
On the battlefield, the Tatars who were charging suddenly heard shouts from their opponents. Everyone was stunned, and everyone could hear them clearly.
Liu Aita also heard it. When he saw the Ming army taking the initiative to attack, he immediately ordered his followers and servants: "Immediately send an order, something happened to the general, the whole army retreats, quickly..."
"twitter..."
Li Yongfang was already frightened. Suddenly he saw the soldiers on both sides of his body retreating. He was shocked. The messenger quickly came to report: "Sir, something bad happened. General Liu heard that something happened to the commander-in-chief." , are all retreating."
"What?" Li Yongfang was shocked when he saw the soldiers on the battlefield in front suddenly switched sides and slashed the Jurchens who were supervising the army with their swords. He suddenly panicked: "Quickly retreat, retreat..."
Han Dai was not injured, but he was horrified to see his Ama and Thirteenth Brother like this. All the troops in front were running away, and he did not dare to delay at that moment. He ordered his men to put their foreheads on the horses, and then he Take Chao Hal and retreat quickly.
The army was defeated like a mountain...
On the battlefield, as long as there is a defeat, if the army generals are stupid and unable to stop it, E Yidu is one of the five ministers. He has a great reputation and has never been defeated in his life. If nothing happens to him, even if there is a defeat, he can Stop, but those Ming troops who surrendered to the Tatars all saw their foreheads falling to the ground, and the command position was in panic, so they turned over one by one in order to survive. With Uncle Dingwu's promise, the court will definitely let them make up for their mistakes...
