Chapter 46: Internal and external attack, the center blooms (2)
The reinforcements led by Shang Yi were lurking in the northeast of Wandian Town. As soon as the sky darkened, Shang Yi immediately led all the troops to set off, choosing the northern camp of the invading army as the main direction of attack.
Because the fighting during the day also exhausted the soldiers who broke into the army, so although it was not too late, after dinner, the soldiers returned to their barracks and fell asleep. After a while, except for a few on duty,
Except for the soldiers who were keeping watch at night, all the other soldiers had gone to sleep. The entire camp was completely silent, except for the occasional louder sounds.
At this moment, taking advantage of the cover of night, Shang Yi led his troops and sneaked quietly to a place only more than 300 steps away from the North Camp of the Chuang Army. Looking at the North Camp of the Chuang Army, it was right in front of him.
, Shang Yi gave an order and ordered the soldiers to launch all the thunderbolt rockets.
Among the troops led by Shang Yi, there were twenty shoulder-type Thunderbolt rocket launchers, ten twenty-five-packed container-type Thunderbolt rocket launchers, and thirty-six-packed container-type Thunderbolt rocket launchers. The soldiers also carried various Thunderbolt rocket launchers.
Taking turns to light, each burning rocket made a sharp whistling sound and flew towards the camp of the intruders. It brought out canopies of dazzling flames, which looked dazzling and colorful in the dark night.
Beautiful and colorful.
In the main camp of the invading army, many soldiers who were keeping vigil at night were disturbed and stopped to see what happened. If it was the west camp of Tian Mi Hidemori, the soldiers might still know what it was. Because they
They had suffered from thunderbolt rocket launchers, but the North Camp was guarded by Li Zixu's nephew Li Guo. The soldiers were all new to the area. They had seen this there, and they all found it very strange and stared at the excitement.
However, some soldiers still reacted, because they heard from Tian Jianxiu's soldiers that the Ming army had a flying gun that could spit fire and explode, which was very powerful. They probably encountered it now, so they also shouted:
"Everyone, be careful, this is a flying gun from the Ming army."
But the biggest drawback is that although I know what kind of weapon it is, I have no way to resist it. I can only watch the rockets one after another fall into the camp with the smoke after the flames burn out. Some of the rockets are in the air.
Explosions occurred, and some exploded after they hit the ground. With the explosions, iron sheets were shot out, and grease was also sprayed everywhere in the camp.
Many soldiers were hit by iron pieces and died, and the grease was burned wherever it fell. Tents, flags, vehicles, food and fodder, village walls, etc. were all set on fire. After a while, the entire camp collapsed.
There are sparks everywhere, and black smoke rises where it falls.
Many soldiers were still sleeping in the tents, and many of the burned tents collapsed, covering all the soldiers sleeping in them. Even if they were shocked, they could not escape, and they could only be killed alive.
Burned to death. Of course, many soldiers escaped from the tents in time, but the camp that appeared in front of them was a sea of fire.
It happened that at this time, Li Guo, the chief general of the northern camp, went to the main camp in the south to report the day's battle situation to Li Zicheng. Although he had arranged for a deputy general to temporarily take care of him in the camp, he could handle ordinary small things. When encountering such a major emergency
Even the lieutenants who stayed behind were dumbfounded. They didn't know how to remedy the situation. They could only watch the camp becoming more and more chaotic and out of control.
At this moment, Shang Yi led his men and horses and advanced only twenty or thirty steps away from the camp of the intruders. The cavalry first threw more than a hundred flying claws and firmly grasped the wall of the camp, and then everyone moved toward the camp.
Then he pulled hard, only to hear the sound of "crash, clatter", and opened several gaps in the wall. The musketeers immediately rushed forward, blocked the gaps, and shot into the camp.
The cavalry immediately turned to other locations and continued to tear down the wall, constantly opening gaps for the musketeers.
At this time, the camp of the intruders was already in chaos, and now they were shot again, which made the chaos even more chaotic. Moreover, the camp was full of flames at this time, and there was no place to hide at all, so there were constant fires.
Someone was hit by a bullet and fell to the ground dead. There were screams, gunshots, and curses.
At this time, on the other side of the Chuang Army's camp, there was a series of "boom-boom-" explosion sounds. The Second Regiment of the Merchant Army guarding Wandian Town also came from behind the Chuang Army.
Kill him out.
In fact, when there was a fire in the Chuangjun camp, the merchant army guarding the position was alerted. Zhou Shaohuan and others knew that their reinforcements had arrived, so they were very happy. Zhou Shaohuan was about to send someone to inquire about the detailed situation.
At this time, Shang Yi sent someone to deliver a message to him, asking him to immediately send troops to respond, attack from inside and outside, so as to break through the northern camp of the Chuang army in one fell swoop. Once the northern camp was broken, the siege of the Chuang army was broken.
Attacking other villages in turn, this internal and external pincer attack, and the central battle plan blossomed, achieved a comprehensive victory.
After Zhou Shaohuan received the order, he immediately sent Tong Dayong to lead a musketry battalion and a spear battalion to attack, cooperate with the reinforcements, and break the Chuang army's northern village. However, he and Huang Zhen still led other troops to defend the position to prevent the Chuang army from other places.
The third line took advantage of the opportunity and entered.
At this time, the attention of the invading army was entirely on the reinforcements attacking from the outside, and they were not prepared at all for the attack from inside the encirclement. Tong Dayong led the soldiers of the two battalions to reach the front of the camp very smoothly, and waited until they defended the inside.
When the soldiers at the inner gate discovered it, it was too late. The merchant army first threw more than 200 grenades into the camp of the intruders, immediately blowing up the soldiers near the inner gate. At this time, the soldiers guarding the camp gate were originally
Not many. After receiving a round of grenades, almost all of them were injured and killed. Then Tong Dayong commanded the soldiers, broke open the camp door, and rushed into the intruder's camp.
Although the chaos in the Chuangjun camp was out of control at this time, it was mainly concentrated in the area near the periphery. On the inside, especially near the inner camp gate, it was not greatly affected, and the fire did not spread here.
But now Tong Dayong led his troops to fight in from the inner camp gate, and the camp of the intruders was finally completely uneasy.
Because of the lesson learned from the last time, the musketeers did not dare to get into the fire scene. Therefore, only the pikemen entered the camp. However, at this time, the intruders had no resistance at all, and they were killed by the pikemen and fell down one after another.
Shang Yi, who was at the outer camp gate, saw the men and horses entering from the inner camp gate, and immediately ordered the musketeers to stop shooting and stay outside the camp, and also sent pikemen to rush into the camp.
Although the gunfire stopped, the shouts of killing never stopped in the camp of the intruders. The intruders were killed in the camp and their bodies were scattered all over the ground. The remaining soldiers had no intention of fighting and were looking for ways to escape.
They left the main camp and fled to other camps. However, outside the camp, they were intercepted and killed by the musketeers of the Merchant Army, so very few were able to completely escape.
The northern camp of the Chuang army was completely broken by the Shang army, and a gap was opened in the encirclement of the second regiment by the Chuang army. Shang Yi immediately ordered the second regiment to withdraw from the encirclement immediately, and both sides joined forces to form a team to prevent The counterattack of the Chuang army.
But at this moment, Li Zicheng made a decision that made Shang Yi somewhat unexpected. Instead of sending troops to attack the merchant army, he ordered to completely abandon the siege of the merchant army and retreat.
It turned out that after learning that Beiying was attacked by the Ming army, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and others immediately sent troops to rescue Beiying and fight to the death with the Ming army. However, they were stopped by Li Zicheng.
Because at this time Li Zicheng knew very well that his carefully designed strategy of luring the enemy deep and then joining forces to encircle him had completely failed. The arrival of reinforcements meant that the Ming army had broken through the defense line he had set up. This Even if the rescue of Beiying was successful at that time, there would not be much hope. Therefore, Lu Jihui and other reinforcements would arrive, and he would be unable to defend himself.
What's more, Li Zicheng is now afraid of the ferocious firepower of the Merchant Army. Although the total strength of the Merchant Army is not large, he has assembled an army of more than 50,000, and even after attacking for two days, he was unable to break through a gate guarded by 3,000 or 4,000 Merchant Army. The position also caused Li Zicheng to completely lose the confidence to defeat the merchant army. Under this situation, Li Zicheng also decided to adopt Gu Junen's strategy of sending his army northward and advancing into Guanzhong.
However, in reality, Li Zicheng returned to the strategy of fighting when he could and running away when he was a rogue. He gave up the land of Huguang and turned north to avoid the merchant army for a while. Although Li Zicheng now had Competing for the strength of the world, he has also gained a lot of popularity, but his essence is still a bandit mentality, and he is always ready to leave at any time.
Therefore, Li Zicheng also ordered to abandon De'an Prefecture, and the entire army immediately evacuated Xiangyang Prefecture overnight. At the same time, he ordered to notify De'an Prefecture, and all the troops in Huangzhou also gave up their respective guarding places and retreated to Xiangyang Prefecture. The next morning, the invading troops on the other three sides were completely withdrawn.
After Shang Yi found out, he couldn't help but admire Li Zicheng, who had the courage to take things up and let them go. However, after this battle, Li Zicheng probably wouldn't stay in Xiangyang for a long time. Therefore, Shang Yi didn't pursue him. Li Zicheng's defeated army took the opportunity to divide his troops and capture Suizhou and De'an Prefecture, and then ordered people to transfer all the grain and grass supplies from Guangzhou to De'an Prefecture. On the one hand, he was reorganizing his troops, and on the other hand, he was preparing to wait for Li Zicheng to leave. Immediately capture Xiangyang, then attack Wuchang and establish your own territory.
At this time, Liu Zeqing's troops who attacked Pingjing Pass worked very hard to attack the key point. As soon as the troops guarding Pingjing Pass withdrew, he immediately led his troops to attack Guancheng and reported the victory to Wu Gang in Xinyang, while the horses attacking Yingshan The people of the Ministry of Science and Technology were always afraid of the enemy and refused to fight. As a result, Yingshan's defenders withdrew, but they didn't even notice it.
Two days later, General Liu Fangliang, who was guarding Huangzhou by the Chu army, also received Li Zicheng's order, abandoned Huangzhou and retreated to Xiangyang. Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong also captured Huangzhou without a single blow.
At this point, the battle was all over. The Ming army defeated Li Zicheng, recovered De'an Prefecture and Huangzhou one after another, and advanced towards Xiangyang.