To the south of the carriage camp, the Oirat military formation that was suddenly bombarded by artillery shells was smashed to pieces. The huge defense line of thousands of cavalry was like a spider web torn apart by the violent wind and rain, and gaps were torn open almost instantly.
The two cavalry teams that rushed to block them also collapsed in front of the trench. They were covered in rockets in the horror of the shells tearing apart, and they hurriedly retreated.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the cavalry led by Marco rushed to the ditch and threw the sandbags carried on the backs of the mules into the ditch, filling in several narrow passages in an instant.
Rockets sprayed into the sky, artillery shells roared beside them, and huge lead pellets were pushed across the battlefield and thrown into the distance. Marco's frontier soldiers wearing red cotton armor crossed the ditch to regroup, and marched forward to attack ten times the enemy. assault.
The guard on the left wing of Oirat was Dorji Taiji of the Khoshot tribe, who was the sixth son of the national advisor Khan.
As early as the billowing smoke and dust rose in Liu Chengzong's formation, Dorji Taiji sensed that the Han army was afraid of breaking through.
However, due to his misjudgment, the six thousand Oirat regiments south of the camp could not form a complete defense line at this time. Their defense was tighter in the southwest, and there was a large gap in the due south.
Dorji Taiji's previous judgment was that the Han army would retreat to the west where there was no encirclement.
All Oirat leaders, including the national advisor Khan, judged this way, and this was their tactic.
From east to west, the Queyue formation was used to wrap up the Han army's chariot camp, forcing it to retreat westward, and then pursue it during the retreat.
Everyone knows that the car camp will have counterattack force, but no one thinks that the car camp's counterattack force will come from the south... They think that the car camp is coming from the south and was asked to intercept it on its way to the north. .
Therefore, the leaders of Oirat believed that the Han army would retreat in two directions: north and west.
They never expected that the Han army would attack in the south, and they also used a large number of artillery to suppress and fire before charging into the formation.
Suddenly, they were bombarded by artillery. Dozens of large and small artillery shells and five to six hundred rockets hit the formation in a short period of time. The entire camp was immediately thrown into chaos. The Oirat soldiers with overwhelming morale were unable to organize an effective interception. .
Dorji Taiji was so angry by his tribe that his teeth itched, but there was nothing he could do. In order to prevent the camp from being scattered by enemy cavalry, he quickly ordered the soldiers to gather and set up a camel city and chariot city.
He could see it most clearly in the formation. Rockets and artillery were not accurate at all in such a windy and sandy environment, let alone killing a few people.
But in this situation where few people were killed, artillery was the biggest cause of the army's collapse - the soldiers were frightened and the officers did not dare to gather their men together.
The soldiers were scattered, how could they stop the enemy's attack?
Dorji Taiji had just figured out so much and was in a panic when he saw a group of men and horses rushing out of the Han army's car camp, quickly filling the trench and galloping over. He was so frightened that his three souls and seven souls came out of his body and he hurriedly ordered Push the guards up to stop the enemy.
His cavalry guard only has more than a hundred people, but from their skills to their equipment, they are all Heshuote's masters and are almost impeccable.
These more than a hundred cavalry are different from the other cavalry in the Heshuo Special Department who wear leather armor. They all wear mail armor and four-mirror armor from trade. The mounts also wear mail armor as chests and beast skins, and are equipped with spears, sabers, Hatchets, bows and arrows, and muskets, as well as preferential treatment and favors, are Dorji Taiji's heart and soul.
The guard cavalry received the order and quickly assembled. Under the leadership of a Darhan, they roared their horses and galloped away to meet the Han cavalry formation that was six times their size.
Dorji Taiji gritted his teeth and issued such an order. He knew very well that the guards he had trained with a lot of money might not be able to come back.
He took a deep look at the backs of the guards without hesitation, turned around and shouted to his men at the top of his lungs: "Form up, form up!"
Thousands of chaotic Heshuote tribesmen in the southern camp hurriedly gathered to the southwest, using camels and Lele chariots to form a simple circular formation, and deployed troops to defend the perimeter with muskets and bows and arrows.
It wasn't until the formation first emerged that Dorji Taiji could finally feel a sense of security around thousands of his troops. However, when he looked north, the battlefield of the brief confrontation once again made his heart rise in his throat.
There were only a hundred cavalrymen in the Guards. In order to buy time for thousands of troops to form formations, they could only break open the seams and spread out two rows of horizontal formations, facing Marco's six conical formations lined up in a row, and execute a nearly suicidal charge.
They held the ignited match ropes and galloped their horses when they were a hundred paces apart. They drew their bows and fired three or even two arrows at extremely fast speeds. The two armies were only thirty or fifty paces away.
Only a handful of people were able to draw out their muskets and get close enough to fire out a blunderbuss. In an instant, spears and muskets collided with each other. Gunshots and roars flew together, causing a mass of people to fall on their backs on the battlefield.
Marco's six conical formations, after penetrating the horizontal formation of the Heshuo Special Guards cavalry, continued to gallop forward unabated.
Behind them, a few guard cavalry who were lucky enough not to fall off their horses slowed down and looked around. After the disaster, they had dull faces and slowly approached each other.
I don't know where the roar came from. Several Han cavalrymen who had been knocked off their horses raised their bows and arrows, or charged with spears. Some even snatched the ownerless horses, and fighting broke out between the two sides again.
Marco had no time to care about the fallen sergeant behind him. He raised his long knife high to suppress the charging pace of the troops while running, and stabilized his pace to a small step again.
Facing the hastily assembled circular formation a hundred steps away, he led the team to move slightly eastward, but did not dare to cross directly because the Oirat camp assembled in the east was also billowing with smoke and dust, making the gap look like a large gap. net.
But he didn't know that Huang Shengxiao, who was on the south side of the car formation, was looking at his back, clenching his fists and almost dying of panic.
Seeing the enemy troops forming a formation, it was a good time for the artillery to show off its power, but Marco led six cavalry units and got stuck in the middle, leaving him undecided.
As the successor of Cao Yao in the artillery of the Marshal's Mansion, Huang Shengxiao was accustomed to cooperating with cavalry officers such as Yang Yao and Zhang Tianlin.
On a small battlefield where heavy artillery can cover a radius of several miles, the training camp of the Marshal's Mansion has a foundation for coordinated operations under long-term coordinated training in Juerwan.
If the troop training camp led by Yang Yao is rushing forward, they will keep a proper distance from the enemy. Huang Shengxiao will also let the twelve heavy artillery blast the shells from their heads towards the enemy without saying a word, and then the cavalry will fire the shells at the enemy. Launch an impact while attacking the enemy.
But now it was Ma Ke who had never cooperated before, and most of the Ming troops led by him surrendered. The distance between them was wrong, and Huang Shengxiao could not order a bombardment.
Huang Shengxiao found that it was useless to be anxious. Ma Ke's soldiers were sometimes faster and sometimes slower, and finally moved a little eastward, which made him make up his mind not to cooperate.
Anyway, we don’t have that ability. Instead of risking coordination, we might as well let Marco get out of the shooting range, just in time to use the thirty-two lion cannons with a maximum range of 600 steps, and release them all.
He simply shouted to someone: "Go quickly and ask Marco to evacuate to the east. Do you want the cavalry to stand there and get shot?"
There were only two hundred steps between the two sides, and the messenger cavalry quickly caught up to convey Huang Shengxiao's order. Only then did Ma Ke realize that there were artillerymen behind him. He looked back and led the team to the east to count the casualties of his men.
Forty-four light and heavy artillerymen in the rear fired again, and the shells clearly shot two angles in the smoke everywhere.
The angle of the light cannon was almost adjusted to the highest level, and the shells were shot into the air like a goddess scattering flowers, and then fell downwards in the formation according to their weight. The sound was terrifying, and the Heshuote troops in the circular formation were frightened to the point where they all raised their heads to avoid it.
However, light artillery is better than nothing at this distance, and the weight of the shells is there. If you are lucky, it can kill or injure an enemy. If you are unlucky, it can only make a small hole in the hard Gobi Desert.
In contrast, the flat fire of the twelve heavy cannons was brilliant. The heavy cast-iron balls crashed through the smoke and smashed into the enemy formation. The tall and strong camels flew with flesh and blood, and the protective Lele vehicles were shattered.
These costs saved most of the Heshuote soldiers from being hit by artillery shells, but one artillery shell still passed through the gap between the Lele vehicle and the large livestock and accurately hit the head of the Mongolian column during the maneuver.
The captain is a Heshuote Shejin who is armed to the teeth. This word comes from the Chinese word Sheren, which is a close relative of the prince.
He was wearing heavy leather armor, and the large rolled-up fur hat was removed to the back of his neck, revealing a Kazakh-style visored helmet with a gun high above his head. The mail on his neck was particularly dazzling in the sunlight.
Facing the threat of a seven-pound iron ball, the horse and bow skills honed on the grassland since childhood were of no use, and the armor made of steel fur was also meaningless.
The steel bowl exploded into a burst of red and white blood mist. The soldiers behind the column only had time to scream uncontrollably, and the shells that had not lost their strength landed on the ground and jumped up immediately.
While rolling and jumping, he smashed three legs belonging to two people, and continued to move forward to carve a bloody path in the column. Finally, he smashed a piece of sand mist on the sand dune in front of Dorji Taiji, which confused Taiji's eyes.
The nobles in the ministry rushed to Dorji Taiji's side to greet him. People saw that he was unscathed except that his eyes were squinted by the sand, so they started to criticize him one after another.
Some volunteered to attack the enemy position and seize the artillery just like they did when fighting the Russian expedition.
Some suggested that Taiji should retreat beyond the range of the artillery, while most people wanted Dorji Taiji to propose to the national advisor Khan that the army should retreat two miles away to besiege the enemy.
There was a lot of chatter all of a sudden, which was very annoying.
Dorji Taiji did not listen to any of these suggestions. He just grabbed the seven-pound iron bullet that rolled down at his feet, with lingering fear.
In fact, he calculated very clearly. The two artillery bombardments were bombarded by more than a hundred artillery shells. The casualties were very small. In total, less than twenty people were killed.
However, the casualties of less than twenty people reduced the morale of the army to the extreme.
The purpose of battle is not to kill, but to win; killing, shocking, confusing, frightening, and even the battle itself are just means to achieve this goal.
For Dorzitaji, this large-caliber, long-range artillery brought him an unprecedented fear of death.
In the eyes of the nobles who give orders, war has always been a matter of low risk and high returns. As the national advisor, Dorji Taiji valued his son who was second only to his eldest son. He was such a noble man.
He has the best armor and the sharpest weapons in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, hundreds of war horses of his own, a guard of hundreds of good warriors armed to the teeth, and thousands of nomadic soldiers who are well-trained and obey orders.
As long as he doesn't show off his power and lead his troops into battle, countless heroes are willing to fight and die for him. What kind of battle can kill him?
To put it bluntly, before the blood of these thousands of soldiers dries up, he can do whatever he wants and fight until the end.
But this iron bullet rolling down at the feet shattered this common sense of war. The deterrence of weapons lies in their range, and artillery is the leader in this kind of deterrence.
It is not the same as a man's angry blood splashing five steps, nor is it different from a lead bullet weighing a few dollars, which can penetrate a man's cave in thirty steps; this big iron bullet weighing seven kilograms means that everyone within two miles is equal, and everyone is equal within two miles. Either death or disability.
Dorzitaji's hand holding the iron ball was trembling slightly.
He is not the only one who is afraid.
To the north of the carriage camp, the nobles leading the army had taken the opportunity to rush towards the carriage camp, but were blocked by trenches of varying depths.
General Heshuote's strategy for dealing with trenches was to drive a small number of livestock to fill the trenches. This was the fastest way to fill the trenches when there were no pockets and branches.
Compared with the groups of war horses and mules restrained in Liu Chengzong's formation, the cost was not high.
But they had just driven their livestock to fill a few gaps, and before the cavalry could file in, hundreds of rifles were fired in front of the formation. The lead pellets and large bullets in the smoke formed a dense barrage, destroying everything within the range. Pierce.
The enemy troops in the Beiying camp immediately retreated along the same route, while the Dongying army simply did not make any attempt and retreated eastwards under the orders of the National Preceptor Khan.
The army in the east camp retreated out of the artillery range like an order. The princes of Heshuote in the south camp were all excited, each urging Dorji Taiji to retreat.
But Dorji Taiji didn't dare...because of Ma Ke, who was eyeing him.
Huang Shengxiao fired a barrage of cannons at him, opening a window in Ma Ke's mind and displaying an imaginary map of the battlefield.
The battlefield no longer only includes yourself and the enemy in front of you, but also includes friendly forces and enemy support behind you.
In this imaginary picture, Ma Ke found that he had more than 500 cavalrymen under his command. They not only had the important mission of communicating with Feng Zhen's troops southward, but also played a more crucial role in a short period of time - such as preventing the people in front of him from letting go. The enemy, who was ten times his size, withdrew from artillery range.
His more than 500 cavalry were like a wedge, moving on the east side of Dorji Taiji's circular formation, slowly moving southward through the gap between the east and south camps, and moving to the southeast of the circular formation.
Dorjitaiji did not dare to break camp, fearing that the troops would be attacked by Mako when they moved away from defense, so they could only move their Lele vehicles and accompanying livestock to the north to block the artillery shells.
Liu Chengzong, who was standing on the sandbags in the Central Military Camp, saw the movements of the Ma Ke Department, and then saw that the Dorji Taiji camp was motionless. He immediately saw the fighter planes and immediately ordered: "Load the lion cannon to disperse, and move eight units from the north and east, and the remaining The sixteenth gate is placed in the southeast corner."
"Let me continue the heavy artillery fire, and let Huang Shengxiao lead a hundred gun trucks to prepare to go out and fight for a while."
At this time, in a three-sided siege, the east and north sides had gradually withdrawn from the artillery firing range.
Only the southern circular formation, due to the threat of Marco on the side, did not dare to break camp and retreat, and their siege formation was out of touch.
Liu Chengzong stood on the sandbag and looked at Ma Ke with a telescope in one hand. He clenched his fist tightly with the other hand and muttered something in his mouth: "Ma Ke, listen to the order, go behind him, go behind him..."
Ma Ke seemed to have heard the order from King Biang, and he indeed led his troops to circle southward along the east side of the Dorji Taiji Ring Formation, and moved close to the south without leaving, looking at the formation with eager eyes.
This move made Liu Chengzong very excited. He jumped down from Sandbag Mountain, threw his binoculars to the guard, and shouted: "Yang Qi!"
Yang Qi was startled by the sudden shouting, and then he heard Liu Chengzong's order: "Sixteen lion cannons are given to you. Go forward to the southeast corner to the trench. The enemy troops in the east camp will advance westward. Sanzi will give him two hundred paces on the flank; The enemy troops in the east camp went to the southwest to support them, and they also used Sanzi to flank them for 200 steps."
After saying that, Liu Chengzong showed a smile on his face, but his eyes were fierce: "Let Huang Shengxiao lead the gun cart, go south to the west, circle half the camp, beat him, and fire cannons!"
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