The Imperial Preceptor Khan was not idle, or rather he did not want to be idle.
When the gun-carrying chariot rushed into the battlefield, the national advisor Khan was not as horrified as his sixth son.
Oirat is located between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire. Almost all the princes and nobles are well-informed, but they are generally uneducated.
The national advisor Khan Tulubaihu was one of the few educated people in Oirat. He knew that this was not a new thing.
As early as the Song Dynasty, the army had used this combination of chariots and muskets. Although the tubular firearms at that time were not powerful enough, the general meaning was the same.
What's more, this is not an isolated case. The Russians just north of Oirat also used this combination. The Russians even put their muskets on canoes and attacked from the river.
The formation of chariots waiting for reinforcements is annoying. Most battles require besieging them until there is no water or food to win, but the chariots in motion are not scary.
As long as there are enough cavalry, chariots are not a threat.
Because the gun truck looks scary, has a long range, and is powerful, but its shortcomings are also very obvious-the body armor is sufficient, but the two-horsepower eight-hoove engine lacks protection.
As long as the cavalry chases and shoots a few arrows, the power will first increase and then decrease until it is lying in the nest.
Therefore, the national teacher Khan was not anxious at all. He hoped to encourage the enemy generals to make more moves. If a person makes too many moves, he will definitely make mistakes. In a war, the battle depends on who makes the most mistakes.
However, the Nanying camp was defeated by these hundred and ten chariots, which puzzled him.
The soldiers are dead and the military formation is loosened, so they won't retreat.
Even if half of the soldiers in front of the formation are shot over by muskets, the commander only needs to send a few teams from behind to attack first, and then remove the injured team.
How could such a simple thing lead to a massive retreat?
Although the retreat had occurred, the battle-hardened National Preceptor Khan still did not panic. Heshuo's special department was not afraid of retreat, which was his special skill.
In the long military career of Guoshi Khan, he witnessed more than one retreat and defeat, regardless of the enemy or friend. For a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, victory and defeat are indeed just a common thing for military strategists and should not be ashamed to talk about it.
There are no rules for 100% victory in war, but there are indescribable laws to follow. Because the cost of defeat is too high and there are too many variables in victory, it is difficult to generalize experience.
Each defeat has its own reasons, but there is no doubt that victory is achieved by being infinitely close to the laws of war.
Not to mention that there were enemy chariots chasing behind the defeated army in the South Camp and enemy cavalry rushing against them on the flanks. Even if there were no such enemies, a shout out of nervousness or even one person's unauthorized departure from the team could turn into a rout.
For example, if a cannonball falls into the marshal's palace, and then someone shouts that the marshal is dead, thousands of elite troops will rush to flee. Even if Liu Chengzong is alive and kicking, his voice cannot stop others from fleeing.
Under today's technical conditions, this kind of defeat cannot be prevented by human power. However, when the times change and technology advances, this problem will become very easy to solve. All it takes is that each company is equipped with a walkie-talkie. Others say that the generalissimo is dead. , Liu Shishi said on the walkie-talkie that you farted.
People don’t need to change anything, the problem is solved.
With the technology and wisdom possessed by the national division Khan, the solution to this problem is to budget. Before the war begins, budget that his army will retreat.
Retreating is not terrible, retreat can be regrouped, but disintegration is terrible.
After the collapse, the scattered army was divided, surrounded and even annihilated by the enemy, with no chance of regrouping.
Therefore, long before Heshuote's army crossed the Yellow River to the west and started the war, he had already made arrangements for where the various ministries should go after they were disconnected and lost command.
All Heshuote's officers above 100 generals knew their predetermined retreat direction, which was the east bank of the Yellow River.
The scattered troops will regroup and defend the Yellow River to form a second line of defense.
However, more than 500 Han cavalry led by Ma Ke launched an attack during the retreat. The most annoying group of people were still in the south just now, but suddenly they ran to the east and suddenly attacked Dorji's thousands of soldiers to the west. In the retreating large column, spears flew like flying arrows for a while, breaking the front into several sections.
Turubaihu couldn't sit still. He discovered that as the southern camp was defeated, the cavalry's strategy was to expel the more than 5,000 defeated troops of the southern camp from the south side of the battlefield to the west.
Once the enemy cavalry completes this intention, the moment Nanying is expelled from the battlefield is the beginning of his losing the initiative on the battlefield.
At this time, the word initiative did not exist, but the meaning of initiative was the same. Seizing the opportunity to seize the opportunity was not only the geographical advantage, but the initiative.
This is also a trend. Simply put, campaign initiative includes three questions: When? where? What method?
Taking the initiative means fighting whenever you want, where you want, and how you want.
Losing the initiative is tantamount to waiting for death for the national teacher Khan.
Therefore, a cavalry team of a thousand riders was sent out by the national advisor Khan, marching from east to southwest along the edge of the trench, trying to assist the dug-out southern camp to recover its decline and expel the Han army's cavalry.
But they were only halfway through when a burst of gunfire suddenly sounded from the flank.
Those were the sixteen lion cannons deployed by Liu Shishi in the southeast corner of Cheying. If Marco's opponent was the Heshuote South Camp army, then Liu Shishi's target was always the Heshuote East Camp.
Because he knew that there was the command center and main force of this huge enemy army.
It's not that he saw anything. The wind and sand on the battlefield obscured his vision, making it impossible for him to clearly see the situation two miles away even with a telescope. However, this matter does not require too much consideration, it is basically common sense.
In most cases, the command center will be tightly defended, and it is easy to contact the various formations on the battlefield, so it is usually located in the center of the formation.
There are indeed generals who take the wrong approach, but not many.
Each of the sixteen lion cannons that had been prepared early was loaded with powder according to his previous orders, waiting for the enemy troops from Dongying to rush to the south for reinforcements.
They used eighty bullets of three-cent powder. The whole bullet weighed one and a half kilograms, and a double charge was needed to increase the effective range to one hundred and fifty steps.
But the march route of the Dongying reinforcements was on the edge of their effective range.
However, the Heshuote army lacked knowledge of artillery. The princes and nobles knew about artillery, but their understanding of artillery was limited to seeing some pipes or captured Russian Franco aircraft.
Beyond that, most of them knew artillery from this battle...it couldn't kill a few people, but it had a long range.
Therefore, these galloping cavalry believe that one hundred and fifty steps is a very safe distance, and muskets, rockets, and bows and arrows are powerless against them.
As for the artillery, it was difficult to target them before they ran away.
Still suffered the disadvantage of being uneducated.
In an instant, more than 1,200 small projectiles flew across the battlefield through the flames and smoke, blocking the middle of the large column of galloping cavalry and shooting out a thick mist of blood. Suddenly, people fell on their backs, and the entire thousand-man team was delayed by the cannons and crowded at the edge of the battlefield.
The frightened wounded horsemen stood up and ran around, shaking their big heads and hitting each other. Their hooves spread out and trampled the wounded soldiers who fell off their horses, making the healthy soldiers who were showing off their strength before be filled with mourning.
This scene made the Imperial Preceptor's eyes tear open, and he almost shattered the already cracked telescope in his palm.
He could see clearly that there was a burst of smoke from the southeast corner of the camp, and the bullets sprayed out from the fire were like a cloud of locusts covering his cavalry. In just one move, almost half of the centurions were gone and killed. Countless horses were injured.
If we put it in the whole battle, these casualties would naturally be nothing to mention, but in one moment, half of the team was wiped out by Sanzi, which made the national teacher tremble with fear.
Fortunately, after the initial panic of the artillery bombardment, the people instinctively withdrew from the shooting range and ran as far away from the car camp as possible. It was not until they had withdrawn more than a mile to the south that they reorganized their formation and continued to attack the cavalry. Yanchen, who was rushing to kill Kebu, chased after him.
The reason why it was smoke and dust was because the generals of both sides on the main battlefield could no longer see Marco. He led his troops to attack the enemy in the south camp. Then both sides chased and hid, and they had already run out of the range that both armies could see.
At this moment, warning trumpets sounded from the west side of Liu Chengzong's camp, and past the forest of spears and spears, Liu Shizi saw through the flags fluttering in the west that an enemy force of one thousand to three thousand was approaching him from the west.
Two more trumpet blasts followed, and the enemy was within a mile.
Before he could get away from the joy of successfully ambushing the artillery, his heart suddenly rose. For a moment, he was not so much worried about the enemy's imminent attack on the military formation as he was worried about the safety of Wei Qian'er and even Yang Yao in the west.
Logically speaking, enemy troops should not appear in the west, at least not so quickly.
But the enemy didn't give him a chance to think about it. A moment later, Liu Chengzong, who got on his horse, could already see the majestic cavalry dividing into three groups and charging towards him on the road.
To be honest, at this moment, it was difficult for Liu Chengzong to determine whether the enemy wanted to attack or collide.
It can be said that it is a collision, and the cavalry on the left and right wings seem to be planning to mount and shoot at the nearby area; but it can be said that it is an impact, and the five or six hundred cavalry in the middle have formed more than a dozen collision formations with their spears pointed out.
But Liu Shishi can be sure of one thing. This Mongolian horse team, with a total strength of about 1,560, came in a hurry. Under the mighty dust, the horses shook their big heads and came over with foam. It was obvious that The Bureau did not give them a chance to observe the battlefield.
Otherwise, how could anyone... use a cavalry force to charge into the car camp?
Because not only did this group of people not observe that the Han army's formation here was a car camp, they didn't even see the uneven trenches in a circle a hundred steps outside the line.
It even makes people wonder, why are these people here?
They rushed over in a mighty manner, and when they were about ten steps closer to the trench, the front team began to slow down in unison. The rear team, who had no idea why, was still charging forward. Suddenly, the front stopped and the back squeezed, until the horse that had just exerted its strength to rein in the war horse was The front team advanced into the trench.
The man fell on his back and his horse fell over.
However, the enemy's will to charge was extremely determined. Seeing the fallen robes and horses filling up the trench, the cavalry behind them trampled over without hesitation.
Liu Shizi was stunned. In the four years since he led his troops to fight in the northwest and southwest, he thought he was well-informed, but he had never seen such a reckless enemy!
"What the hell are these people?"
boom!
A lion cannon filled with Sanzi was fired first from the northwest of the carriage camp. More than ten cavalrymen fell on the spot, but it was difficult to stop the cavalry's momentum; another lion cannon followed closely, but to no avail.
Immediately, hundreds of guns were raised and fired in turns. The alternating sound of gunfire seemed to be amplified firecrackers lit in front of the formation. The banging sound was endless. Huge lead bullets penetrated the caves and horses, and more heavy guns followed. Fire to stop the enemy.
The momentum of the front team seemed to be stifled, but only for a moment. The rear team rushed forward again, giving no time for the soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion to reload their ammunition.
For a moment, arrows rained down like locusts. The two cavalrymen on the left and right wing, who had been disabled by lead bullets, formed a ring formation and fired arrows. The two or three hundred cavalry in the middle rushed towards the chariot formation. After dozens of steps, they found that there were connected chariots in front of them. Only then did they stop their momentum and spread out in the middle of the battlefield, looking very confused.
In just a moment, they dismounted resolutely, blindfolded their horses and drove them towards the chariot formation.
He Huchen, who was holding the battle in the west, was extremely nervous. He drew his sword from his waist and shouted for the soldiers to hold their ground and face the collision.
He Zan even held a long knife and led a team of people to stand behind the spearman, ready to cross the car formation and launch a counterattack at any time.
The next moment, the carriages and horses collided. More than ten horses galloped into the center of the west side of the carriage formation, and were penetrated by several spears. Four or five connected Lele carts were also knocked away by inertia, and sandbags were rushed into the air. , scattering yellow sand all over the sky and falling to the ground.
The dismounted Mongolian soldiers separated from the chariots, drew their bows and fired arrows. More people rushed into the position along the gap with short soldiers and engaged the Han army in the Marshal's Mansion at hand-to-hand combat.
Only then did Liu Chengzong know why these "violent and fearless" enemy troops were acting like crazy. He raised his arms on horseback and pointed into the distance, where thicker smoke and dust was rising.
Under the smoke and dust, there is a large encirclement of frontier cavalry with fast horses, light swords, soft bows and long arrows.
A large flag with Liu characters on the red bottom was flying in the formation. In the middle was more than a thousand cavalry led by Zuo Guangxian forming a vanguard formation. Wei Qian'er's cavalry was slightly behind, with dozens of assault teams spreading out in a mighty formation to form Queyue. Formation, galloping behind this enemy army.
Seeing those flying flags, Liu Chengzong understood clearly and all his doubts were solved.
Those who went crazy and hit the back of his army were an enemy army that was being chased and blocked with no way to escape... Their only chance of survival was to cut through their own line and join the main force.
"wrong!"
As soon as Liu Chengzong thought this, he immediately overturned his judgment.
This stragglers who had been hastily assembled after being defeated could not penetrate their own army formation, but the loud shouts of killing would not be ignored by anyone on the battlefield, and the main enemy force to the east would definitely not remain indifferent.
If it were him, even if he couldn't see the situation to the west, he would send troops to attack from three sides at the same time. Suddenly launching a fierce attack with multiple forces would be the way to win.
Thinking of this, he frowned and said to his left and right: "Flow the flag and blow the trumpet, tell the east and north to prepare for attacks and prepare to defend against the enemy!"
The military flags were swaying, military music was blaring, and the sky was filled with the sound of horns. The defenders of the chariot camp opened up their posture. Rows of soldiers carried loaded firearms and set up on the chariots. A forest of spears and spears moved back and forth behind the chariots.
At the same time, the enemy troops were also summoned like dark clouds. Amid the overtones and the sound of drums and horns, two cavalry teams circled to the west and south. This time they learned their lesson and did not dare to come within 500 steps of the carriage camp.
The main enemy forces on both sides of the northeast also quickly assembled their infantry and cavalry formations, and pressed forward towards the carriage camp with firm steps.
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