On the second day after Su Haisheng led his army to siege the city, Chen Qixian's Ming army arrived at Husi Wour'er and successfully joined forces with Su Haisheng.
On the same day, Su Haisheng received a report from the enemy, saying that a huge military force was rushing towards Hu Si'er and was moving rapidly in the direction of Hu Si'er.
The momentum is huge.
Su Haisheng judged that this should be reinforcements from Xiliao.
Previously, Marshal Xiao Orila of the Western Liao Dynasty led 50,000 elites to attack the Khwarezm Kingdom. The Khwarezm Kingdom was in danger.
The Ming army did not take care of the Khwarezm Kingdom, but took advantage of this good opportunity to advance rapidly and penetrated the Xizhou Uighurs in one month. After that, they came to Hu Si Won'er.
This cannot but be said to be without the "contribution" of the Khwarezm country.
But now Xiao Weili and Xiliao's crusade are back, which shows that they have not given up their struggle and decided to fight to the death.
Su Haisheng soon realized that this was the time for the decisive battle.
According to military reports, the army commanded by Xiao Orila not only had 50,000 elite soldiers from Western Liao, but also had more than 30,000 servants from the Western Karakhan Kingdom. The total number of troops was about 80,000, and it was very powerful.
Under such circumstances, 80,000 troops could be drawn to come to the rescue. I have to say that this is enough to reflect the strong national power of Western Liao, and it is worthy of Western Liao's status as the hegemon of Central Asia.
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But unfortunately, there were 80,000 Ming troops along Su Haisheng's side. Su Haisheng was not worried about what these 80,000 reinforcements might cause.
Moreover, this is the decisive battle he has been pursuing for a long time, a decisive battle at a strategic level, with a total force of more than 150,000 people!
He had not encountered a decisive battle of this level in many years. As a general, this kind of opportunity was rare, which made him very excited.
Su Haisheng mustered up the spirit of 120,000 and immediately ordered his troops and generals to rectify the 30,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. He left the 20,000 troops to continue besieging Hu Si'er'er. He led the 60,000 main force to face Xiao Orili's army. Eighty thousand reinforcements.
Come on, let's fight!
It was the fourth day of December in the tenth year of Hongwu. The temperature was cold and the wind was blowing, but the sunshine was still good, so it was not that cold.
At the end of the morning, the Ming Army and the Western Liao Army encountered each other in the Bishkek area west of Hu Si'or'er, and a decisive battle began immediately - this area also has another name that has existed for 65 years, called Frunze .
Here, Su Haisheng encountered one of the few opportunities he had since joining the army to command a battle alone.
The last time he encountered this opportunity was when he defeated the Jin Army in Guanzhong. That was a long time ago. He can still remember the fanaticism at that time, and this time, he was just as fanatical.
The place where the two armies fought was a wilderness, the sky was blue, the fields were vast, the wind blew the grass and the grass was low... the enemy was visible.
The march of the Xiliao army was actually very organized. Whether it was infantry or cavalry, they all came slowly in formation, in an orderly manner, and marched hand in hand on the left and right. They were obviously elite soldiers who had received certain training.
Seeing from a distance that everyone was still some distance away, Su Haisheng's entire army stopped advancing, and the artillery was pushed to the front line. The cavalry and general artillery were in front, and the general and artillery behind them were preparing to fire.
The Xiliao Army was quite puzzled when they saw that the Ming Army no longer advanced, but began to roll out some strange weapon-like things to the front of the formation.
Xiao Weili asked his subordinates if they understood what the Ming army was doing, but all the generals said they were unclear.
Only one subordinate said that he had heard from his relatives who were doing business that the Ming army had very powerful new firearms, which were said to be as powerful as thunder. He did not know if they were these.
Xiao Weila thought for a while and shook his head.
"Firearms are not something to be afraid of. Just listen to the sound. The real threat is the Ming people's military formations and cavalry. You see, the Ming people's military formations are very rigorous, with bright armor and clear flags. At first glance, they are people who have been trained for a long time. They are also Their cavalry are equally elite and cannot be underestimated."
Xiao Weili's side has the majority of cavalry and the minority of infantry, while the Ming army has more infantry and relatively less cavalry.
In order to balance the force, Xiao Weili decided to let some cavalry dismount and turn into infantry to supplement the infantry formation and stabilize the central army's formation. Then he ordered the whole army to move forward slowly and not to disrupt the formation. Once such a place is in chaos, It would be impossible to reorganize the military formation.
Then he decided on tactics. He first used part of the cavalry to move to the two wings to tangle with the Ming army's cavalry, and then urged the infantry formation to move forward to confront the Ming army's infantry.
Because the cavalry is very confident here, when the cavalry gradually suppresses the Ming army's cavalry, as long as the infantry remains undefeated, it will do its best to entangle the Ming army.
He will use his superior cavalry to defeat the Ming cavalry. As long as the Ming cavalry is defeated, even if the Ming infantry is strong, at least the Xiliao army will be in an undefeated situation, and there will be a lot to do.
As for the specific operations, it mainly depends on whether the generals and soldiers under his command are capable. Anyway, after the order is issued, it depends on the specific operations of the generals.
He believed that the generals under his command were strong enough, because they had just won a victory over the Khwarezm army and still had some morale.
However, Xiao Weili was wrong. The Ming army did not play according to the rules from the beginning.
When the Xiliao army's cavalry began to circle the two wings and the infantry began to attack, Su Haisheng ordered the general's artillery to fire.
The general's artillery with the longest range is often the first part of the Ming army's fire strikes, specifically bombarding the enemy's dense military formations. Although it has no explosive effect, the impact of the huge iron bullets and the residual power after the bounce can be The one who plowed a bloody path in the dense military formation.
Twenty general cannons were fired with a bang and crashed to the ground, causing a devastating blow to the dense infantry formation of the Liao army.
Xiao Weili's position was still some distance away from the front-line fighting army. Even so, the iron bullets that fell to the ground caused horrific damage to the soldiers in the formation when they bounced up and continued to impact, plowing a bloody path. The impact was still visible to him.
To be honest, the actual lethality brought by the general's artillery is not great, and a cannonball hitting the dense military formation cannot kill many people.
But the problem is that the death state of the killed person is too terrible, the sound is too scary, and the indomitable momentum is too intimidating, so it can scare the feudal army into confusion.
It can be said that the general's artillery is not a powerful weapon to kill the enemy, but it is definitely a magic weapon to destroy the enemy's morale. Not to mention the infantry, even the Xiliao cavalry that was charging and preparing to attack the Ming army's cavalry was shocked by the sudden thunderous sound. Living.
Some of the less courageous horses were already frightened, and the charge momentum of the entire cavalry team was dampened. Many cavalrymen were affected and fell to the ground with their horses. Many of them lost their lives.
The shell of the general's cannon is like throwing a stone on a calm lake. It cannot actually harm the lake water, but the ripples it creates have made the lake surface unstable.
The Xiliao army was unable to restore its normal combat morale.
This is fatal on a battlefield where the two armies are facing each other tit for tat.
After the general's artillery launched the second round of firing, because the Xiliao infantry formation had stopped advancing, the Ming army infantry formation began to take action. The cavalry also divided into two groups and launched a fierce countercharge towards the two flanks of the Xiliao cavalry. , a tough front.
There are not so many twists and turns on the battlefield. When fighting swords against swords, there is nothing but courage. All tactics and tactics require courageous people to implement. Without courage, there is nothing.
What the Ming army soldiers lacked most was courage.
The Xiliao generals lacked courage at this moment, especially the infantry.
