Chapter 279 Mistakes Repeatedly
This shocked the bandits who rushed here, very scared and helpless, because they knew that if they had fought in the past, they could have accomplished their big things.
But now that they have attacked here, they can't rush to the opponent's defense line, and are resisted by the opponent from outside the defense line, and cannot advance or retreat.
It is not a big deal if it is not up or down, but they are facing extremely tragic things now, that is, they are always facing the baptism of each other's cannons, muskets, bows and arrows, and a large number of people fall down at every moment.
To put it bluntly, they are now at the point where they are absolutely beaten and can only be killed by others, but cannot hurt the enemy. Such a scene makes many people feel scared.
Zhang Xianzhong had always been full of energy, but when he saw this scene, he was shocked. His tens of thousands of troops attacked the enemy's positions and the 2,000 military formation, but he could not break through the opponent's defense line, which surprised him inexplicably.
This also made Zhang Xianzhong extremely angry.
Zhang Xianzhong asked loudly: "Who is this army?"
Even if they fight with the most elite official troops, they will not be so frustrated and be beaten so passively. They let the other party fight on the front battlefield. Seeing that the situation was not good and the news was wrong, Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered the Jin to withdraw his troops.
Who knew that the city gate was wide open at this time and a cavalry rushed out of the city. After they rushed out of the city, they divided into two groups and directly launched an attack on them. Their surprise soldier, which was only about 1,500 people, was only surrounding the wings of Zhang Xianzhong's army, and they actually had the idea of making dumplings.
Zhang Xianzhong is also a master on the battlefield. It is not easy for you to make his dumplings. Moreover, he has tens of thousands of troops, but his tens of thousands of troops have completely lost their morale under the enemy's fierce attack. The worse part is that he ordered the Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
Since the attack on Anqing, his soldiers have been forced to fight with others. They have unilaterally massacred. The soldiers are almost collapsed. When they hear the sound of Mingjin coming from the rear army, they retreat without hesitation.
It was already close to the collapse. Even if they did not withdraw their troops themselves, the cannons on the city would almost collapse. Who knew that Zhang Xianzhong would withdraw his troops at this time, and it turned out to be a major defeat.
The most likely thing to happen on the battlefield is that you want to retreat peacefully, but the enemy will not give you a chance. Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong didn't know enough about his grassroots soldiers at this time. The soldiers were almost collapsed, and at this time they dared to call for gold and withdraw their troops.
This made them fall into a collapse situation directly. In addition, there were two cavalrymen in the city that rushed violently, rushing their troops, crashing away their formation, rushing straight towards Zhang Xianzhong, which made their army even more chaotic.
Originally, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were already in chaos, and they were in a mess. They retreated in a noisy way, and were attacked by the opponent's cavalry, and they completely collapsed.
An emergency retreat during the attack turned into a great defeat, which Zhang Xianzhong did not expect, but he was also a quick-responsive person. He had been a bandit for so many years, but he learned the good kung fu of observing the face and color. When he saw that the wind was wrong, he was ready to escape. Unexpectedly, the other cavalry surrounded them and surrounded them in one go.
Zhang Xianzhong was shocked. He could not have expected that he would face such a situation today. The moment before, he was proudly preparing to capture Anqing. In less than half an hour, the situation took a sharp turn. His army collapsed and he was surrounded by the enemy's elite cavalry.
These elite cavalrymen used the high-speed impact of their war horses to disrupt the formation of the bandit army, drove them away, and then surrounded the most elite central army among the bandits and contracted the front line.
Zhang Xianzhong had nearly 20,000 people, and it was not easy to surround him, but their soldiers had collapsed and went directly to escape. Especially after seeing their Central Commander-in-Central Army was surrounded, these soldiers did not come to rescue him, but they still ran away one after another.
If it were normal times, these soldiers would definitely go all out to attack the enemy's cavalry, hoping to rescue their general, but now they have been beaten to the championship and are completely destined to be brave and have no morale. How dare you have the courage to take the initiative to attack the official army?
After these soldiers lost their courage, they fled one after another and fled outside the battlefield. They knew that this was Shura Hell, and the farther they were from here, the better.
Liu Bu was originally commanding the battle under the city. When they used their tricks, he quickly retreated to the city tower to command. He knew that the enemy had many shortcomings and flaws that they could use today. If they were allowed to use it well, they might be able to defeat this bandit.
The enemy has nearly 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the Qi army has only about 4,000 people, but they are not afraid at all, and everyone is full of confidence.
At first, the Liu family army was still afraid of the enemy. After all, they were facing Zhang Xianzhong, a famous thief in the world. He was a figure in the world. He also captured Fengyang, Zhongdu of the Ming Dynasty, destroyed the imperial tomb of the Ming Dynasty, and cut off the dragon veins of the Ming Dynasty.
No matter who faces such a hero, they will fight with both legs and feel scared. However, after they fought, they discovered one thing that even the strongest enemy was beaten into meat sauce under their cannon guns, and they were all fried into pieces, which made the morale of the soldiers of the Liu family army shocked and full of confidence.
When Liu Bu saw Liu Kou's army attacking their formation with all his might, he knew that their chance had come. You should know that using their red-clothed cannons to bombard the opponent's formation, let alone bandits, even the most elite Jiannu army could not withstand, let alone these bandits with low organizational strength and weak cohesion.
Sure enough, under their fierce attack, the bandit army collapsed directly. Zhang Xianzhong, who was commanding, used the strategy wrongly, that is, to withdraw the troops and minimize the losses. This approach is actually wrong. When the army is in chaos, how can you let the soldiers retreat? Once you retreat, it will turn into a great defeat.
The army turned into a great defeat, and Liu Bu immediately seized the opportunity keenly and ordered their cavalry to take action quickly and attack the opponent's central army.
Their original intention was to attack the other party, attack the other party's formation, make the other party even more chaotic and completely defeat the other party. Who knew that after the morale of this bandit army disappeared, it was completely chaotic and unorganized, and they were driven out like sheep.
The central army formation of Zhang Xianzhong and others was easily defeated and surrounded by them.
This is equivalent to taking the generals directly among millions of troops, and they actually successfully surrounded Zhang Xianzhong's main force in the central army.
In fact, this is not a siege, because the cavalry that surrounded them was only more than 1,500, which was smaller than Zhang Xianzhong's army in the encirclement.
But there is one thing that is, the morale of the Qi cavalry surrounding them is very high, and Zhang Xianzhong and others in the encirclement are already panicked and want to escape one after another.
The moment they were still full of energy, but the moment they were actually trapped in a lot of siege.
Zhang Xianzhong was very knowledgeable and couldn't help but feel panicked.
He immediately wanted to snatch the horse and ran away, but he found that the Qi cavalry surrounding him were very powerful. After storming the bandit army, they drove them out like sheep, and then returned to the army to surround them. However, they did not take the initiative to fight and attack Zhang Xianzhong and the others, but formed teams of horses after team and used bows and arrows to attack them within 100 meters.
Among the bandits, some people who know how to do things were cursing: "The damn one is actually the Mongolian Tartars."
Mongolia's most elite tactics are the six major tactics left in the era of Genghis Khan. One of them is the circular tactics, that is, their light cavalry did not directly attack and confront the opponent, but instead galloped quickly hundreds of meters away from the opponent, constantly attacking the enemy with bows and arrows.
You should know that these Mongolian soldiers can use their feet to control their horses, and gallop like the wind outside the enemy's position. He can shoot you to death, but you can't shoot them.
When the Mongolian Iron Cavalry was in full swing, their tactics defeated countless enemies, and even the heavy armored cavalry in Europe's most powerful Teutonic Knights were defeated by them.
Now, after the Liu family cavalry, mainly the Mongols, surrounded Zhang Xianzhong's big fat piece, did not rush to eat it, but instead snooped around and cruised around, looking for opportunities to use their circular tactics to sneak attacks and attacks.
Instead of taking the initiative to fight with the bandits' army, they kept shooting bandits with cold arrows outside his opponent's array.
This tactic made many people so angry that they bit off their teeth. The enemy was riding a fast horse and running around you like the wind, but they kept attacking you with bows and arrows. You watched the people around you constantly be shot by cold arrows and muskets, and Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he was angry.
Zhang Xianzhong ordered his cavalry to prepare and form an elite force to rush out. At this time, he noticed the sound of stomping. When he looked back, he saw more than 2,000 infantry guarding the city gate pushing over, and directly arrived 150 steps away from them, surrounding them.
Chapter completed!