The snow was falling heavily, but Zhu Su's face turned paler the more he thought about it, feeling that everything had been figured out.
What opportunity was Timur waiting for? The chances of winning are nothing more than the right time, the right location, and the right people and people. Zhu Su dug a ditch in the ground and crouched down under the Nine Grounds to wait for his arrival. He had secured the advantageous position first.
With harmony, the morale of the Ming army is high, and they have a new victory, so there is no chance to take advantage of it.
Then, the only one who can find a way to take the lead is "Tianshi". Timur was born in the river, and Keshi City was the hometown where he grew up. Naturally, he was well aware of the weather changes in this place. I'm afraid that when he arrived, he already had a premonition that it would snow heavily here in a few days.
Naturally, he would think of using the "weather opportunity" of heavy snow to break Zhu Su's trench array.
"Your Highness?" The generals were shocked by Zhu Su's sudden words. Is Timur waiting for heavy snow? Wouldn't heavy snow be more detrimental to the attacking side?
"Quickly recall the Persian soldiers and poisonous soldiers who are still digging trenches, and assign them to various trenches to garrison, ready to clear the snow at any time..." Zhu Su said. Because his experience was still shallow, although he had tested the feasibility of trench warfare in advance, he completely ignored the impact of weather changes on trenches.
Looking at the snowfall, it wouldn't take long for the sudden heavy snowfall in front of us to cover up the trench. If the snow is not cleared, the effectiveness of the firecrackers in the trenches will be greatly reduced.
Moreover, in order to create momentum, the trenches were dug too big. The Ming army did not have enough manpower to shovel the snow... If the Persian soldiers and Shendu soldiers were not transferred back as engineers to clear the snow, could the Ming soldiers be allowed to shovel the snow and kill the enemy at the same time?
What's even more frightening is... In order to hide the truth about the shortage of troops, Zhu Su deployed mostly empty troops in the trenches. He wanted to use the function of the trenches to hide the marching movements, and to temporarily dispatch soldiers in the face of battle to resist the overwhelming number of troops. own army. Now it's snowing heavily. Timur can see the strength of the troops in each section of the trench just by looking at how the snow is shoveled in various places... The hidden function of the trench is greatly reduced!
Once the truth and falsehood were exposed, how could he compete with Tamerlane's army, which was far more numerous than his own?
After informing the generals of these information, they all changed their colors as expected. They immediately went to assign Persian poisonous engineers and ordered the soldiers to set up snow guards and other facilities on the trenches to try to reduce the impact of the snow disaster.
However, how could Timur easily give the Ming army a chance? At dawn the next day, Timur's army took action.
The low sound of the horn resounded throughout the world, and the snow surface was shaken by the simple and vigorous sound of the horn. It was also the first time for Zhu Su to see the powerful military strength of this "world conqueror" in history.
The Islamic infantrymen wearing thick robes formed an extremely thick phalanx. They looked at the thick snow in the trench and began to march forward step by step.
"What are they holding in their hands?" someone asked doubtfully.
"It's a shield, a newly made thick wooden shield." The Ming army soldier with good eyes answered, his face already solemn. In the past few days, Timur's army did not just wait in the camp. They also cut wood everywhere and used the wood to make thick wooden shields to withstand fire bullets. Although these wooden shields are ugly, they are thicker.
"...these barbarians actually formed a formation like a turtle." Beside Zhu Su, Di Meng looked at the formation of these Central Asians and couldn't help but cursed.
Zhu Su, who was looking out with a lookout tube, also had a solemn look on his face. Zhu Su also felt that the formation of these heavy infantrymen holding thick wooden shields seemed a bit familiar. They were close together, connected by shields, and covered by wooden shields above, below, left and right. They slowly advanced step by step, and they became the "Roman heavy infantry phalanx" that often appeared in later movies. Considering that the so-called Rome is now in the west of Timur's empire, it is not surprising that this formation was copied by Timur.
This stupid formation is full of flaws when viewed on normal days, but when used at this time, it is just right. Although they were moving slowly, they suffered very little damage amidst the hail of bullets fired by the gunmen, and they advanced slowly but steadily step by step.
"...Heavily equipped to break the formation, this Timur, he really saw through the weaknesses of trench warfare." Zhu Su gritted his teeth.
During World War I, trench tactics had great success, but it was the "tanks" that became very popular later that brought them to dust. Although trenches are good at defending, they often appear very powerless when faced with something as big as a tank. Tanks don't care about the fancy trenches you dug. They just rely on their thick armor and heavy weapons to crush them all the way. The soldiers in the trenches are often helpless.
Nowadays, the "turtle formation" put out by Timur is somewhat like a tank with heavy armor. Although the ability of this phalanx is actually far inferior to that of tanks, Zhu Su's current combat power is not as good as the soldiers of World War I, and the firearms of the Ming army are also far from the level of World War I.
Facing this turtle shell formation, there really is no good way.
Seeing that the Ming army's fire cannons kept shooting at the "turtle shells", but without much success, the turtle shell array was still slowly moving forward. Seeing that they were about to reach the first trench, Di Meng and other generals couldn't help but Somewhat panicked: "Your Highness, what should we do now? Let the soldiers withdraw?"
"...Ask the soldiers to retreat, bury a few grenades in the trench, and fire them when they arrive." Zhu Su said.
After years of research and development of grenades, the Ming army has already developed many ways to use grenades. "Pulling a grenade" is one of them. It is connected to a grenade with a line in the distance. When the enemy passes by, the grenade is fired from a distance. The grenade explodes in the enemy's formation, which can often cause great results. However, this time, Timur obviously did not count the casualties, and the "La Lei" exploded. Although more than ten corpses were left behind, it still did not stop the army from advancing.
Even if someone is only seriously injured and lies on the ground howling, someone will immediately stab him without mercy, then raise a shield to fill the gap and continue to move forward.
"...Damn it." Zhu Su felt a little horrified and clenched his fist bitterly. After all, the grenades of this era were not as good as the grenades of later generations. Most of them used the power of the explosion to shoot out iron sand nails to kill the enemy. But it was obvious that Timur had taken precautions. This army was heavily armored and had such a defensive posture, so the damage it could cause was very limited.
He was also shocked by the elite and coldness of Timur's army.
"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Cao Tai asked.
Zhu Su stared closely at the heavy infantry sent by Timur to break the formation while it was snowing. The marching route of this infantry had obviously been planned long ago, and it chose a point where the Ming army was relatively weak. Even if Zhu Su mobilizes his troops to kill this heavy infantry at all costs, the rest of Timur's army behind him will definitely take advantage of the lack of troops in other places and attack the central headquarters here first, threatening the His Zhu Su's safety.
Timur's use of troops has merit. His own military strength is weak, and it is an established fact that he cannot do anything now.
"Call the troops to get ready and prepare to break out." Zhu Su said.
(End of chapter)
