Wu Shen Department

Author: Use your soul to aim

Wu Shen Department

Facing the siege of more than 20,000 cavalry, the teenagers defending the city tightly held the weapons in their hands.

The squad leaders walked back and forth, patting the recruits on the shoulders one by one to make them relax. Some of the lively squad leaders kept telling dirty jokes, saying that if the battle was over, they would lead the class to find a Tatar girl to make pornographic jokes.

The explosion-proof wall more than two meters high could not block the enemy's spying sight. After observing the entire Shuofang City, Taiji of the Wu Shen Department determined that there were not many cannons in Shuofang City, and the Han troops defending the city looked old.

It was relatively small, and the total number of soldiers guarding the city was less than 10,000, less than half of them.

Then he decided to lead the cavalry to ride and shoot around Shuofang City. The cavalry of 20,000 people did not take a stick of incense to complete a circle around Shuofang City. They were good at riding and archery and could easily shoot ten arrows.

Under such a rain of arrows, this small Shuofang City will surely be destroyed by itself.

Full of confidence, Wushenbu Taiji began to order:

The cavalry of all tribes set off in sequence, riding and shooting around Shuofang City, and his own cavalry set off last. All cavalry must shoot at least ten arrows during one circle around the city. After three weeks around the city, all arrows in the quiver must be shot.

Those who have not finished shooting the arrows will be beheaded.

He also promised that after destroying these Han troops, all the tribes would divide the pastures that originally belonged to the Wanhu tribe in Ordos.

Although they were allowed to rush to the front as members of a small tribe, looking at the low city wall also made them confident and felt that they could easily take Shuofang City.

Boren stood on a high platform in the center of Shuofang City, observing the enemy's movements with a telescope. In fact, the Tatar cavalry was already within the range of the rockets, but Boren did not want to scare away the Tatars, so he did not let the rockets be launched.

When Boren saw the formations listed by the Tatars, he understood what kind of tactics the Tatars were going to adopt. When everyone discussed the tactics on weekdays, they realized that although the blast wall was convenient, it was too short and the enemy stood high.

You can observe the layout of the camp.

The defensive effect of bows and arrows is also not good. If the enemy rides around the explosion-proof wall and shoots, it will indeed cause a lot of casualties. Some people who are good at equestrian skills can jump directly over the explosion-proof wall and jump into the camp.

They also discussed related defense methods. One was to use cannons to disperse the enemy so that they could not assemble and form mounted fire. The other was to set up multiple explosion-proof walls in the camp.

The Tatars wanted to insert it diagonally from the northwest corner. After reaching a place about 60 meters away from the explosion-proof wall, they would then change direction to the south and parallel to the explosion-proof wall. Once parallel to the explosion-proof wall, they could start ejecting into the city.

Boren's response was to have the cavalry regiment dismount to reinforce the west wall and use continuous firepower to kill a large number of Tatars. At the same time, the artillery also fired canisters to let the Tatars feel the power of firearms.

The Tatars, who had already gathered in the southeast of Shuofang City, impatiently launched an attack without waiting for Wu Shenbu Taiji to issue an order.

When the cavalry led by the Tatars began to turn to the north and was about to draw their bows and nock arrows, they saw puffs of white smoke suddenly coming out of the low wall, and then they felt that they were knocked off their horses by something.

The five-pound bronze cannon that had leveled its muzzle was also firing canisters at the Tatars' follow-up team. The Tatar cavalry who had not yet had time to turn their horses were swept to the ground one by one like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

The ten-pound bronze cannon fired solid bullets at the Tatar team that had not yet set off. The shells kept jumping on the ground that had not yet thawed, smashing people and horses along the way, leaving twelve bloody alleys.

After the soldiers on the explosion-proof wall finished shooting one round, they immediately took over the loaded flintlock muskets and continued shooting. Even if the Tatar cavalry escaped the cannon shot, they could not escape the flintlock volleys.

They suffered such a brutal blow before even shooting an arrow. The Tatars who had not yet set off immediately collapsed and fled in all directions. The Tatars who had already set off also turned their horses and fled the city wall desperately.

After the Tatars discussed the range of the flintlock gun, Boren ordered the shooting to stop. When the smoke cleared, the teenagers saw the Tatars smashed in front of the blast wall. They did not vomit or get nervous, but cheered happily.

He kept shouting "Long live the Legislative Army".

Wu Shenbu Taiji, who was watching the battle from a distance, was also frightened by the rapid firepower of the Legislative Army and the tragic battlefield. He was speechless for a long time, until one of his subordinates reminded him that he should gather his troops quickly or they would disappear.

Wu Shenbu Taiji then reacted and asked his troops to gather the scattered cavalry. In fact, this wave of firepower output only killed several hundred Tatars. It was just that the sudden firepower attack immediately overwhelmed the Tatars.

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After spending an hour and killing several leaders of small tribes, the team was finally gathered together.

But how to continue the attack put Wu Shenbu Taiji in trouble again. He couldn't just waste it here. The grass was about to grow, and he had to let his men graze for the cattle and sheep.

Shuofang City must be captured as soon as possible. At this time, my subordinates proposed that the people of the small tribe cover the soil and attack the city, and let them fill in a slope to the explosion-proof wall, so that their own cavalry can rush directly into Sufang City. This can also consume

Ammunition of the Han army.

After filling up the slope, the Han army's blunderbuss could no longer be used. At this time, they still looked at the Legislative Army based on their experience of fighting the Ming army decades ago.

Wushenbu Taiji first summoned the leaders of the small tribes and announced that they would overturn the land and attack the city. The leaders of the small tribes did not dare to object, so they could only obey Wushenbu Taiji's request and let his men overturn the land and attack the city.

Wu Shenbu Taiji also used his own troops as a supervisory team, requiring each cavalry to dig two bags of soil and throw them into the three selected trenches, and they could not stop until a slope was filled.

At this time, Boren was thinking about how to annihilate this enemy force. After all, he had few troops. If he fought with the cavalry regiment on the other side of the river, he would be able to defeat the enemy at most, but he would not be able to keep all the Tatars here.

In the end, Boren decided to wait until night, use rockets to frighten their horses away, and then join forces with the cavalry regiment on the other side of the river to wipe out all the Tatars in the Wushen Department.

The Tatars were very experienced in attacking the city. They did not swarm up in a hive, but sent out troops to first induce the Han troops on the blast wall to shoot, and then took advantage of the time of reloading to throw bags of earth when they got close.

It's a pity that the reloading of flintlocks is faster than the muskets, and the Han army on the wall shot by one person, and three people loaded the ammunition for him. The Tatar's method at the beginning was still effective, but the Tatars later did not get close to the explosion-proof wall for thirty

Don't shoot anywhere.

After a whole afternoon of fighting like this, the Tatars did not fill up a single trench. Only corpses piled up in front of the trenches were left. At this time, the morale of the Tatars was low, even though the cavalry of the Wushen Department killed more than a dozen small tribes.

Of the cavalry, no one was willing to step forward and die.

By this time, Wu Shenbu Taiji already wanted to retreat, but he was unwilling to retreat like this. Originally, the Ming army came and burned the pastures and then left. Now, some Han troops have been building settlements and they don't want to leave after they come.

If they retreat, these Han troops will inevitably attack the herdsmen even more violently. The dilemma arises when someone proposes to go to Dalatwan Hubu for help before departure. This Han army destroyed their Wushen tribe and Dalatwan

Tobe is next.

After thinking about it, they immediately sent people to Dalat Ten Thousand Households to ask for help. They stopped attacking the city and started to camp to guard Shuofang City. The Han cavalrymen would definitely not dare to come out. They would wait until Dalat Ten Thousand Households arrived before attacking the city together.

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After dark, Boren first sent people to contact the cavalry ambushing on the other side of the river, asking them to launch an attack from behind the enemy camp at two o'clock in the morning. Then he asked the troops in Shuofang City to have a good rest and prepare to raid the enemy camp in the middle of the night.

At one o'clock in the morning, the rocket launching position was set up. After reducing the charge of the two hundred rockets, they were aimed at the Tatar camp four miles away. The ten-pound bronze cannon also adjusted its firing angle to the maximum and loaded it with live ammunition.

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Then the infantry brigade and the remaining cavalry regiment quietly left the city from the north and south respectively. The infantry brigade was responsible for blocking the Tatars from escaping to the north. They stopped only two miles away from the Tatar camp. The cavalry regiment

Then go around to the south of the enemy's camp.

The four cavalry regiments that had been ambushing outside had also moved behind the enemy's camp, waiting for the signal to launch an attack.

Wushenbu Taiji knew that Ordos Wanhubu was defeated by a sneak attack before dawn, so he was naturally on guard against Shuofangcheng's sneak attack. He also hoped that Shuofangcheng could escape from the blast wall and attack him sneakily.

In this way, he can eliminate the defenders outside the city, and he still has this confidence in his own cavalry.

Therefore, Wu Shenbu's camp seemed relaxed and there were only a few people standing guard. In fact, the cavalry in the entire camp slept with their horses, did not take off their armor, and were ready to stand up and fight at any time.

However, he did not know that he was about to face a dimensionality reduction attack. Even if the Ordos nobles who escaped told him that the Han army had a very powerful rocket, he did not care and thought that it was just the frightened Ordos nobles.

nonsense.

At most, they were grenades commonly used by the Ming army. He had seen those grenades before, but they were loud and could not kill anyone. At most, they would blow them into black coal.

At two o'clock in the morning, the artillery in the city fired rockets on time as required, and the ten-pound cannon shells also roared out.

Just like what Xin Qiji wrote in his poem: The east wind blooms thousands of flowers at night, and even blows them down, and the stars are like rain.

At the same time, the infantry brigade also marched forward, forming a neat queue to the beat of drums, and attacked the Tatar camp.

The whistling sound of rockets woke up the Tatar camp. When they walked out of the camp, the first thing they saw was the falling stars, followed by the sound of explosions one after another.

The cavalry from the other two directions also launched an attack at the same time. First, they were knocked off their backs by rocket bombs. The entire Tatar camp was in chaos, and then the Han cavalry came in.

Because the Tatars slept with their horses, some of the Tatars who reacted had already mounted their horses and tried to escape, but ended up bumping into the attacking cavalry.

He was knocked off his horse by the muskets of the Legislative Army cavalry. Zhang Zongxian taught his disciples to put firepower first. His disciples all brought more than one flintlock musket to the battlefield, and some ruthless men brought six muskets. They directly defeated the Tartars.

The assembled cavalry collapsed.

The cavalry of the Legislative Army who entered the Tatar camp would kill anyone they saw. If the Tatar cavalry gathered, they would use short muskets to greet them. Some Tatars saw that there were no cavalry rushing in from the north, so they ran to the north and ran into another enemy outside the camp.

of infantry brigade.

Immediately knocked off their horses by a volley of musketry, the infantry brigade carrying bayonets walked to the Tatar camp and fired a volley of muskets at the Tatars who were driven over by the cavalry.

The desperate Tatars surrendered one after another, and the officer ordered the shooting to stop.

The battle did not end until dawn. Twenty thousand Tatars were killed and more than five thousand were killed. The rest surrendered to the Legislative Army.

The young men excitedly tied up the Tatars and escorted them all to Shuofang City.

Boren selected from the prisoners those Han Chinese who had escaped from the border wall to join the Tatars for their own reasons, and asked them to lead the way to the winter camp of the Wushen tribe.

Boren wanted to completely eliminate the Wushen tribe. The cavalry, who had simply rested for a whole morning after the battle, set out on their journey here.

Three days later, the completely unprepared Wushen tribe faced a disaster. After killing all the men taller than the wheel, they drove the captive livestock back to Shuofang City.

After learning that the Wushen tribe had been destroyed, the Wanhu tribe that had originally set out to reinforce Dalat immediately returned to the tribal camp and quickly moved all the peripheral tribes to the north of the Yellow River.

So far, there are no more tribes with more than a thousand people in the Hetao. The remaining small tribes either fled to the north of the Yellow River or surrendered to the Taiping.

In this battle, the Legislative Army suffered less than a thousand casualties, beheaded 20,000, captured 10,000 Tatar men, more than 50,000 Tatar women, a million livestock, and 60,000 horses. In addition, they captured more than 20 small tribes.

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After Zhang Zongxian learned that Boren had achieved such a great victory here, he was very happy and lamented the decline of the Tatars. No wonder the slaves in the previous life were so easy to deal with the Tumote tribe.

Immediately, in the name of the Legislative School, the five regiments of the cavalry brigade were awarded second-class collective and individual merit, and each of them was awarded ten taels of silver.

These five cavalry regiments made great achievements. Zhang Zongxian decided to use these five cavalry regiments as the backbone and directly supplement the twelve newly formed regiments to form five cavalry brigades.

In this way, veterans can lead new recruits to quickly form combat effectiveness.

Boren also asked what to do with the surrendered Tatar tribes. Many of the tribes that surrendered this time totaled almost 20,000 people. Zhang Zongxian decided to redivide the pastures of the surrendered tribes and let them change from nomadic to grazing.

But before that, they must be dispersed again, the original tribal order must be broken up, and they must be given names and names, and their hair must be tied up in different clothes.

After completing this, Zhang Zongxian will allocate cattle, sheep and horses to them, and teach them how to store silage fodder. In the future, he will also provide them with corn stalks, potato stems and leaves as silage fodder, so that they no longer have to travel for grazing.

After all, so many cattle and sheep were seized and they needed to be herded. The most important thing was that in Zhang Zongxian's plan, there would be no more Tatars on the grasslands in the future.

Moreover, these tribes can be scattered along the Yellow River to serve as an early warning for Shuofang City.

In order to complete this matter, Zhang Zongxian asked Wang Guofu to lead twenty inner disciples to Shuofang City to assist Boren in reforming the surrendered Tatars.

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