Lead pellets and arrows shuttled in the air, Khalkha's Batter stood up with his sword drawn, and groups of Mongolian herdsmen launched attacks on the mountains again and again.
The cavalry of the Marshal's Mansion came in the distance and split into two lines from the flanks of the battlefield. Gao Yingden held a spear and led 600 horsemen straight to the Mongolian artillery team in the center of the battlefield, moving forward without any further delay.
Under the Bajiao City, the two thousand Mongolian cavalry rushing to the city's rescue also rushed towards the central artillery at this time, vowing to take the twelve bronze heavy cannons back into the city...
Zhang Tianlin's cavalry and Gao Yingdeng separated during the gallop and galloped towards Tushan. The cavalry dispersed into two dragons in the smoke and dust, trying to encircle the Mongolian troops besieging Tushan.
The cavalry behind them was galloping faster and faster, and the Mongolian herdsmen on the mountain were attacking more fiercely. It was not that they could not see the danger coming behind them, but they had only one goal - the red-bottomed Liu-character banner seventy steps away, and the
The head of the young general who held a bow and supervised the battle.
People only have one belief, break through the defense line in front of them and seize the big flag.
If you seize the big flag, or even if you let the big flag hide away from the mountain, the enemy on the battlefield will not be able to see the commander's flag, this war of being trapped in the strange city wall and waiting for death will be over.
They will be able to obtain endless green salt, countless wealth, fertile land that has never been seen in the desert, and a coveted shelter!
But the red flag refused to retreat even a step, and even faced the arrows, bows and knives, and approached step by step condescendingly.
Liu Chengzong suddenly ducked down, raised his shield to block the arrow, and then straightened up. His face was not afraid at all, but instead he grinned slightly, showing a crazy and malicious smile, eager to try.
At seventy steps, Chooktu's vanguard of the robber camp was only seventy steps away from his Chinese flag, but the soldiers from Changhexi formed the most solid formation and stood between them, preventing the Mongolian soldiers from advancing even an inch. If you retreat, you will lose everything, and if you don't break through quickly, you will be defeated. Both sides have been filled with great anger from the siege in recent days, and their eyes are red.
The herdsmen formed a formation with scimitars, spears and even hooks and sickles, but they were unable to get close at all. The chieftain heavy infantry in the west of the Changhe River used thick and strong spears five to six meters long to form a square formation and drove them back again and again. p>
When the hooks and sickles were entangled with the spears, the Mongolian infantry wearing fur coats and wielding swords and shields rolled under the spears and launched an attack. They were blocked by the layers of spear formations. Many of them were even approached by three large crossbows.
Shoot into a hedgehog from a distance.
There was back and forth between the two formations. The soldiers on both sides gathered on both sides of the mountain road could no longer tell who broke up first. The Mongolian skirmishers stood sideways and held bows and arrows at people's faces at close range. The chieftain soldiers also gave up their spears.
A huge shield and a big crossbow, running barefoot on the hillside, throwing javelins away.
But Liu Chengzong believed that the two sides could not continue to stalemate like this. For a while, no one could do anything to the other. Some people did not even know that they were injured. Once they fell into coma, it would be difficult to save them. The casualties would be much greater than in a defeat.
He turned around and said: "Sanlang, go help."
Fan Sanlang, who was carrying two handguns, responded after hearing this. He raised the gun and ordered the guards around him. He led thirty guardsmen to divide into two teams, occupied two small highlands beside the mountain road, lined up in three rows, and ordered to launch an attack on the enemy formation.
Shooting.
With a few bangs, gunpowder smoke spurted out in front of Liu Chengzong's right side.
The five guards retreated together, passed two rows of ten guards, stood at the end of the line, put the blunderbuss at their feet, cleaned the blunderbuss without looking away, bit open the cartridge and poured gunpowder into the blunderbuss.
The two rows of ten guards at the back each took a step forward. The five in the front row fired their cannons again and retreated in unison. The last row of guards stepped forward again and fired at the enemy formation based on their height advantage.
After the small horizontal formation on the right finished shooting, Fan Sanlang, who was standing in front, raised his arm to give instructions to the left, and the same guard formation on the left also started shooting at the enemy formation.
During the period of the Lion Camp, the soldiers of the Guards were once the most valiant and proficient warriors under Liu Chengzong. However, with the westward migration and southern expedition, they have experienced several blood changes, and now his guards have almost changed.
In the past, the guards either went to study in the Chinese military camp or went to Xining Academy, where they served as cultural students and military instructors, or they went to local places as township officials or to serve as team managers in the army.
But now these guys are a group of low-level officers who have made meritorious service in the Southern Expedition and are waiting for promotion.
Although there were only thirty muskets, they were condescending according to the terrain, and fired methodically and alternately towards the rear of the military formation at the foot of the mountain.
But the most eye-catching thing is the artillery that emerged from the camps on the flanks of the hillside.
This group of artillerymen is very courageous. They not only carry knives for close combat, but some even carry guns and charge. At this time, their organization has become a weapon with even greater firepower.
Liu Chengzong alone saw three of them. Their gun-carrying group followed the infantry and charged in groups. Two of the guns were filled with loose iron slag, and one was loaded with large lead. They were carried and charged towards the enemy under the cover of their comrades.
Enemy position.
A few steps closer, a man with a sword, shield and musket stood in front of him. He raised his hands and knelt down on one knee. He tied a cloth around his shoulders and raised his gun. The gunman behind him fired his gun at an approximate location where there were no friendly troops.
The scattered iron slag mixed with gunpowder smoke sprayed out several feet, covering more than a dozen people, leaving them with bloody heads and heads. They lost their combat effectiveness in an instant and were replaced by wailing.
The sound of the big lead was like a thunderbolt, and it penetrated the coats of the nearby people, killing four people on the spot, and frightening more than ten people around them to be helpless and terrified.
The military formation, which had been quite solid just now, was directly opened. Then it came to Liu Chengzong's artillery's specialty, determined not to let the commander distinguish what kind of arms they were.
The chief dropped his heavy musket to the ground, and the gunmen followed suit, drawing out their Yanling knives from their waists and pointing them directly at the enemy formation, forming a column and charging.
There were only wounded soldiers rolling on the ground in front of them, and there were no annoying spears anymore.
Seven or eight artillerymen made a close combat charge, cleanly overwhelming the Khalkha infantry formation composed of thousands of people from the side.
Liu Chengzong saw the enemy's formation collapse on the hillside. The soldiers were running in panic on the mountain road, swarming towards the rear climbing team, triggering a new wave of rout. People collided with each other on the hillside, lost their footing and fell, rolling violently, like rolling stones and trees.
Screaming and rolling down the mountain.
The soldiers climbing at the foot of the mountain could only lower their heads and pay attention to their feet. They were not aware of the loud shouts coming from the front line. When they suddenly looked up and saw the rout, they were frightened and lost half of their souls. They fled towards the slope where the horses were, regardless of the military order.
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The horse team led by Zhang Tianlin galloped for four miles. Each horse shook its big head violently while running, and sprayed droplets from its mouth with every step. It was already at the end of its strength, but it arrived at the foot of the mountain at just the right time. p>
Zhang Tianlin stood up on the back of the galloping horse. The saber on her waist was already raised above her head. She turned to give instructions to her flankers to rush towards the enemy's horse camp. In the blink of an eye, the 600-horse team once again emerged from the unharvested wheat field.
We are divided into two teams.
One group was chasing the horses left behind by the Khalkha army at the foot of the mountain. The other group, led by Zhang Tianlin, turned around and pursued the broken troops at the foot of the mountain. They raised their sabers and shouted in skilled Mongolian to surrender.
Chaotic horse hooves stirred in the dust at the foot of the mountain. Many defeated soldiers were frightened by the sudden snowball-like large-scale collapse of their own side. At this time, they just ran away and did not care about surrender. When the galloping cavalry passed by, they still shook their heads and ran forward for several seconds.
After a few steps, he realized that he was covering his neck and fell to the ground.
At this moment, when the four thousand-man troops who attacked the camp were swept away and defeated, Gao Yingden also rushed to the artillery in the middle of the battlefield with his spear.
The collapse of the front line left the two thousand-man troops behind them without any intention to fight. At this time, they abandoned their artillery and fled outside the south gate in embarrassment. Gao Yingdeng also did not even glance at the twelve artillery pieces, and only let his subordinates
The dozens of war horses that were dragging the cannons were untied and swept towards the south gate again.
Liu Chengzong's front line only had artillery and artillery shells, but no gunpowder. The artillery was just a valuable and heavy bait.
The generals all know that Chuk Rabbit is frightened by this thing, and they will definitely send troops to snatch it.
In fact, the Mongolian cavalry transporting these twelve cannons was not as fast as the siege ladder led by Ah Liu, and was even slower than Liu Chengzong expected.
In Liu Chengzong's expectation, these artillery pieces should reach the moat at the south corner of the west city and be intercepted, just enough to bombard the battlements at the south corner of the west city.
The gunpowder is all on the ladder truck.
Ah Liu's Yongning chieftain soldiers first sent an elite group to protect the unattended artillery. Those soldiers wore various types of armor, including the iron ring armor that they changed after entering Baili, and the Ming Dynasty armor from the early years when they were under She Chongming's command.
In military armor, everyone wears black robes outside the armor and walks quickly with a ring-shaped sword.
Protected by them were dozens of artillerymen under Huang Shengxiao. After occupying the artillery, they immediately adjusted the muzzle, took down the gunpowder from the ladder truck site and started filling it.
This time they did not have ammunition bags wrapped in silk, so they relied entirely on hand charges, and immediately launched a bombardment on the enemy troops who had climbed onto the Western Wall.
As the enemy troops attacking the mountain were defeated, the crisis on Tushan had been resolved. Liu Chengzong ordered Gas, who was covered in blood, to reorganize his team at the foot of Tushan, and put up a telescope on the mountain to look at Bajiao City.
The enemy troops in the city were like a group of frightened birds. They even sent a small team from the west gate to try to take advantage of the chaos outside the city to demolish the pontoon bridge. However, before they could cross the trench, six thousand-man troops from Khalkha outside the city were defeated and frightened them.
You have to flee towards the city gate.
Seeing the guards closing the city gate tightly, even though the nobles on the city yelled and cursed, it was of no avail. The soldiers sent outside the city fled south of the city along the road between the city wall and the sheep and horse wall.
With the roar of the cannon, a row of cannonballs hit the west wall. In fact, the cannonballs either flew over the city head or hit the west wall. None of the cannonballs hit the defenders on the city, but they suddenly hit the wall.
The southwestern wall and north wall of the city were scattered, leaving the west wall without battlement protection.
This made Liu Chengzong smile and let out a long sigh of relief.
He could remember that on the first day of the siege, the soldiers of Khalkha could stand behind the battlements of the western city wall and receive the baptism of six hundred cannonballs like the bravest soldiers of this era.
Even on the second day, the observers of the catapults could still stubbornly guard the three lonely battlements to provide instructions for the shooting angles of the catapults.
Even if the last three battlements were gone, they still dared to lie on the west wall. At that time, people were not as panicked as they are now.
Based on their performance at this time alone, Liu Chengzong knew that the six-day siege had entered the final stage and his soldiers could board the city.
Looking back, at the Chinese military commander's tent on Tushan Mountain, two small holes were punched out by arrows on the Liu-style flag, but it was still fluttering in the wind.
The sound of trumpets sounded on the top of the hill, and the guards beat the war drums. Huang Shengxiao and Shi Chengwo who were hiding on the other side of the hill also climbed up the hill. Countless artillerymen were tying ropes to the cannons and shouting the trumpet in unison.
They put their treasure on the door panel and slowly lowered it down the mountain.
Huang Shengxiao looked at the top of the city and shook his head at Liu Chengzong and said with a smile: "Commander, the enemy has no intention to fight. I'm afraid they won't be able to use this treasure."
Liu Chengzong nodded. This siege made him think and learn a lot. He also gained a personal understanding of the tactics of war that he could memorize in the past.
"When we attacked Zhenyuan, I thought it was only when the army climbed up the city that we called it an siege. Everything before was just preparations for the siege." Liu Chengzong shook his head and said, "I know this time. All the preparations are very important during the siege."
Important Charter."
While talking, the trench truck had passed the pontoon bridge and lowered the folding bridge plank on the trench. Then the ladder truck drove into the outside of the city wall. The defenders tried to fire arrows at the soldiers beside the ladder. They had just pulled their bows once or twice when they were fired by three artillery pieces.
I was so scared that I ran down to the city.
The ladder was successfully put up to the top of the city. Ah Liu and the chieftain soldiers of Gas gathered under the city. Their men climbed up the city one by one from left to right, and started fighting against the defenders.
All preparations are for this moment.
Liu Chengzong had too many insights. When a city seems united and can be defended, it cannot be attacked by force; but when every means is used to show one's own advantages, destroy the enemy's confidence, divide the enemy's power, and make the enemy unable to trust each other and full of suspicion, the city
It seems impossible to hold on.
You can attack a city that cannot be defended.
Maybe this is what our ancestors said about focusing on the heart.
Liu Chengzong smiled at the people on Tushan Mountain and said: "Many of them didn't sleep last night. I don't think those people could stop Ah Liu and Gas. Believe it or not, even if She Chongming was still alive, he never dreamed that his soldiers could follow him.
The Khalkha Mongols fought against each other and even attacked the city."
Shicheng and others laughed, and Huang Shengxiao laughed and said: "How can She Chongming compare with the Marshal's unconstrained imagination?"
Liu Chengzong pretended to be angry and said: "What's wrong with me? I just want to do whatever I want?"
"Didn't the Marshal always say that we must have a battle with the Donglu? Who would have thought of this?" Huang Shengxiao stood beside Liu Chengzong with his arms akimbo, watching the three-layer long and short mortar made of copper being dragged by a yak.
Carrying the shipment to the front line, he looked very proud, and then he changed to a look of anticipation and said: "It makes me always think that when the general sweeps the world and has a fight with the Donglu Tatars, I will use this to blow him up!" p>
"It's good that you think so. As long as we don't die, it will happen sooner or later."
Liu Chengzong snorted heavily. After this battle, he should have established a foothold in Qinghai. Anyone who wants to invade his territory should carefully consider it.
Now, he feels that he can develop the craftsmanship on his territory, reorganize his army, and gradually improve his political power.
At this moment, new changes occurred on the battlefield. A Mongolian cavalry of nearly a thousand from the south of the city rushed out and collided with Gao Yingdeng who was chasing the defeated troops outside the city. However, Liu Chengzong could clearly see that the cavalry on both sides seemed to be
They were all stunned for a moment and slowed down.
Then the cavalrymen of that cavalry team dismounted one after another and were taken elsewhere by Gao Yingdeng's horsemen. The two troops formed a formation on the spot and actually launched a blockade against the defenders who rushed out of the city.
After two battles, the defenders retreated into the city. Not long after, Gao Yingdeng's men led several cavalry towards Tushan.
Upon seeing this, Liu Chengzong waved to everyone and said: "Let's go down and have a look."
When the cavalry came over, they dismounted and saluted him, and then said: "Commander, this man said his name is Ahai Daiqing, and he is the one who drove the cattle cart in the river valley. He took more than a hundred surrender letters, and several more
He said he wanted to see the commander-in-chief to receive the reward."
Is anyone really going to receive the reward?
Liu Chengzong was only surprised in his heart. He turned to look at the majestic Ahai Daiqing, and saw that he had taken off his helmet and there was still a layer of helmet, which was shiny and dazzled by the sun.
Liu Shishi thought in his mind, why is the helmet so bright? When he took a closer look, it turned out to be bald.
I saw Ahai Daiqing kneeling forward very obediently, banging his four heads from his hairy waist, and then kowtowed three times and said nothing to pretend to be a master.
Gao Yingdeng's cavalry soldiers came forward and explained: "This Tatar cannot speak Chinese. The one on the far left belongs to Chuoketu Taiji, and the remaining three belong to Nayan nobles. This Nayan killed Taiji."
Ji, he also killed that Nayan. In the end, the two Nayans fought and were killed by Ahai Daiqing."
After a long list of words, the cavalry soldiers themselves were confused, but after a while, they continued: "Ah Hai said that he also avenged Taiji, and felt that there was no need to continue fighting, so he went out of the city and surrendered. I hope everyone will
Shuai can bury his Taiji properly."
Liu Chengzong crossed his arms and looked at Ahai Daiqing. He felt that there might be nothing wrong with the fighting process, but there was no need for such pretentious loyalty to Chuoke Rabbit Taiji.
"Let him get up and follow me carefully. For the sake of his surrender to me, I will bury Chuck Rabbit Taiji properly..."
After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, the cavalry soldiers who understood Mongolian language translated, but Ahai Daiqing had no reaction. He just knocked his head again and still did not raise his head.
Liu Chengzong understood, he nodded and said: "Bring these heads to me, I will not treat you badly, and the rewards will be sent to you."
Before she could translate, Ahai Daiqing raised her head, with her expectant eyes, there were almost stars in her eyes.
Liu Chengzong just said, he is so loyal, who has nothing to do but stuff more than a hundred surrender letters into his crotch!