The night battle enters the final battle.
The Ming Dynasty's army also began to move. In addition to the chariot formation at the front, the subsequent 2,500 soldiers and horses were divided into five groups and slowly began to advance forward.
The soldiers just packed up their belongings and treated it as a night march. The only difference from the past was that the previous march was in the wilderness, but this time there were 30,000 people around. A Tatar cavalry serves as an audience.
"Rumble..."
The Copper Ox Formation can also be regarded as a firearm used by the Tatars to defeat the Ming Dynasty. It was specially trained in the past two years in order to help them in the future. Soldiers and horses opened a gap.
This kind of copper bull formation is basically ineffective when attacking city fortresses. No matter how hard the horns are, they cannot break through the city walls of the Ming Dynasty.
But if fighting in the wild, the power of the Bronze Bull Formation is still there, at least it can form a seemingly solid moving copper wall.
This was trained by the Tatars as a last resort after they saw the Ming army repeatedly attacking the grasslands and making them run away. Although the Bronze Bull Formation looks powerful, there is still one The disadvantage is that the Tongniu Formation is still afraid of artillery bombardment.
Ordinary fire cannons may not be able to directly block the charge of the bison, but if the cannonball hits it, not to mention the bison, even the elephant can be blown to pieces.
So the Tatars chose to conduct their first battle using the Bronze Bull Formation at night, and the Ming army in front of them created a good environment for them, that is, the Ming army was illuminated by bright torches. Underneath, their Bronze Bull Formation was in darkness, and it was a secret raid.
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The Bronze Bull Formation came out majestic. Although it was only two hundred cows, it created a force as famous as thousands of troops. rack style.
It is impossible for the Tatars to just let these two hundred cows charge. These two hundred cows are just their vanguard, responsible for breaking away the chariot array of the Ming army, so that they can rush to the Ming camp. The core area has entered a state of hand-to-hand combat, which in their opinion is a must-win.
No matter how powerful your gun is, it takes a long time to reload. It completely misfires after two rounds. Why don’t you take the opportunity to chop you all down?
Ten thousand Tatar elites, including elites from the Chahar tribe and other tribes who cooperated with the troops, followed the Tongniu formation and rushed toward the camp of the Ming army.
In their view, needless to say, it is a sure thing, at least the possibility of losing this battle is very low... Even if there is a certain deviation in the copper bull formation, the damage to the Tatar cavalry can be reduced, and then the risk is taken. One or two thousand Tatar cavalry, and the remaining eight thousand cavalry will definitely be able to rush into the camp of the Ming army. So what chance does the Ming army have of winning?
Seeing that the Tongniu Formation was less than 200 steps away from the Ming Dynasty's chariot formation on the front line, the Ming Dynasty's chariot formation also opened fire at this time.
It was more troublesome than dealing with the Tatar cavalry before. After firing with muskets, I could clearly feel that the black copper bull formation was still approaching the chariot formation, and then the Ming DynastyThe formation of tanks began to fire more dense fire bombs.
"Chuk tug tug..."
The sound is continuous and dense.
Because they couldn’t see clearly what was going on with the Ming chariot array, the Tatars couldn’t tell at this time whether the Ming chariots contained artillery or blunderbuss. The formation had already rushed over, and they followed the Bronze Bull Formation to the front line of the battlefield. There was no room for them to look back.
"Boom!"
Finally the sound of artillery came.
But it is not dense, just sporadic artillery firing.
There were still dense sounds like firecrackers piercing the night sky. The bronze bull formation could have rushed into the chariot formation from 200 steps in the blink of an eye and overturned the Ming Dynasty's chariot. turn.
But in the blink of an eye, those armored bison fell to the ground one after another.
"Puff, puff, puff..."
As we got closer, the sound was no longer a violent sound, but a continuous muffled sound.
The Tatar cavalry watched the bronze bulls in front of them fall one by one, and then their vanguards directly faced dozens of Ming chariots.
"Kill!"
The Tatar cavalry has no retreat.
Until now, they have not figured out how those bison fell, but the question is no longer whether they can rush into the Ming chariot formation, but that the fallen bison in front have become their cavalry charge Even if some cavalry could jump over the bison's carcass and rush over, it was still a dark situation. There was almost no light at all for the bison on the ground. Later, a large number of Tatar cavalry were tripped up on their own.
But the chug sound is still heard.
The 10,000 charging Tatar cavalry could only continue to charge forward.
Then a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield.
The Tatar cavalry rushed about a hundred steps in front of the Ming Dynasty position. They could barely shoot their bows and arrows, and even passed through the open space in front. The sound of arrows hitting the iron plate of the chariot array was endless. The bang bang bang sound is very sweet, but even if you take ten steps or even one step down, it will be difficult to reach the sky.
The Tatar cavalry fell one after another, just like the fallen buffaloes. Almost all the soldiers rushing in front fell forward. After the horses fell to the ground, most of the soldiers could not get up, because not only There were many bullet holes on the horses, and even the cavalry were full of holes.
In the past, one gun was used to solve one problem. If one gun could not solve the problem, it was fired twice. If it failed again, the only option was to change the bomb...
But it is different now. There is no reloading process.
Dozens of chariots directly attacked our 10,000 elite Tatar cavalry, and the sound of firearms firing continued in the middle. It seemed that the Ming Dynasty did not have to worry about reloading.
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The Tatar army has become a mess.
Cavalry charges, those in frontThey are generally cavalry wearing thick armor, equivalent to iron cavalry, and the light cavalry behind are responsible for charging over to clean up and finish.
But with the fall of the thick-armored cavalry, the subsequent light-armored cavalry had no ability to hinder any long-range attacks. Not to mention muskets, even ordinary firecrackers and crossbows would defeat them. Unable to resist.
The ground was filled with the corpses of horses and soldiers, as well as those of the Bronze Ox...
This resulted in many of the cavalrymen who rushed over not being hit by bullets but falling down. They were tripped by the cover of their own battlefield in front. Even if the cavalry in the middle and rear rows made a certain detour, they were just looking at these dozens of tanks, and they seemed to be within reach, but they were You can't get close to it, and you can't even attack it.
What made the Tatars even more frightened was that the chariot formation did not stop to fight them. While the two sides were fighting, the chariot formation was still advancing slowly.
However, after advancing for about thirty or forty steps, it stopped.
Because some of the horses pulling the chariots of the Ming Dynasty were shot by bows and arrows and fell down, but the firearms in the chariots did not stop firing.
Although the horses have thick armor, the area that can be covered is not comprehensive after all, but the chariots are like mobile fortresses, and the armor is enough to withstand the Tatar bows and arrows.
The Tatars wanted to shoot them with rockets, but found that it was of no use.
Because only the initial bows and arrows can reach the Ming chariot formation, subsequent bows and arrows cannot reach within fifty steps of the Ming army. After all, the range of their bows and arrows is greater than the range of the firearms of the Ming army. Much closer.
Initially, it was only the surprise attack of the Tongniu Formation and the lack of actual combat experience among the Ming army soldiers that allowed them to advance within the bow and arrow range of about a hundred steps.
Not to mention a hundred steps later, even within a range of two hundred steps, the Tatar cavalry would have almost no way to survive.
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As the son of Batu Monk, Bals wanted to make a name for himself in this battle.
Being able to kill Zhang Zhou with his own hands will make him a hero respected by everyone on the grassland. From then on, the position of Khan of the grassland will be within his reach.
But after the war started, he found that none of his ideas had been implemented, and his own casualties had become horrific.
With the arrival of the Ming Dynasty's follow-up troops, the chariot formations on the front line no longer have to face their cavalry charge alone. The Ming Dynasty's army has already covered them up, and the Ming Dynasty's light cavalry has begun to attack from different directions. The Tatars still used firearms to attack the encirclement, but they did not use fire blunderbuss, nor did they use the sudden and sudden killing weapons. They directly used muskets on horses to carry out the assault.
At this time, most of the Tatars around the encirclement were the foils of the Chahar tribe.
They were all ordered to fight with Batu Munch's third son, and none of them wanted to die along the way.
Originally I just wanted to build up my reputation., take a share of the pie while cleaning the battlefield.
When they discovered that even the elite Chahar tribe of the Tatars could not break through even a chariot formation on the other side, and the Ming army had begun counterattacks from all directions, there was only one cavalryman from each tribe of the Tatars. The choice is to drive horses and pull horses.
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The offensive and defensive battle lasted for the entire second half of the night.
Under such circumstances, the Ming army advanced nearly twenty miles in the middle of the night.
The Tatar cavalry were killed and wounded along the way, and no one cut off their heads or ears. It seemed that this was no longer important. The Ming army only wanted to complete the mission with Tang Yin. meet.
At dawn.
The grassland is full of bloody misery.
The smoke of gunpowder is still there. In the past, it was just gunpowder and ignited tents. Now the air is indeed filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. The Tatars' copper bull formation tactics can be said to be completely bankrupt on this night. A hundred cows were all wiped out before they could do anything.
After the Tatar cavalry suffered heavy losses, subsequent troops almost fled the battlefield.
In the second half of the war, just before dawn, the Ming cavalry chased the Tatars for more than 20 miles. There was no fighting along the way. They were all one-sided crushing. .
The Ming Dynasty used three thousand soldiers and horses to chase nearly 30,000 Tatar soldiers and horses everywhere.
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"Master, basically all the people are back."
By the Saussurea River .
Zhang Zhou jumped off his horse and stood there, watching the sun rise in the east.
In the distance, you can already see a higher hill, and you can see the bottom of the river valley, and you can already see the traces of where the Ming army was once stationed.
It’s just that Tang Yin’s headquarters has moved more than ten miles north...
At this time, Zhang Zhou’s headquarters was only about forty miles away from Tang Yin’s Chinese army. Not to mention a few days, even if it is just one day, both sides may directly meet at the same place.
Liu Gui, as the number one hero of this war, has returned with some of his trophies. It is not ears or heads. He just brought back some Tatar flags and remanded one. The special person is Shama, a partial general of the Tatars and Bals' uncle.
"Who led your troops?" Zhang Zhou asked.
Shama was pinned to the ground and couldn't understand Zhang Zhou's words at all.
Someone immediately relayed Zhang Zhou’s words.
Shama was yelling there, appearing to be very unconvinced and obviously not going to answer Zhang Zhou’s questions head-on.
Zhang Zhou smiled and said: "Congratulations, you have witnessed the beginning of your defeat, and the next step will be your complete defeat. I will use this battle to let you know who the master of this world is."
"Wow wow wow..."
Shama continued to curse.
But then he became honest and suddenly fell silent, completely speechless.
Zhang Zhou asked: "What's going on?"
The translator next to him said: "He knew you were Cai Guogong, so he stopped talking."
"Oh, then I will take this as your respect for me. How many prisoners were captured?" Zhang Zhou asked.
"There were only a few dozen, and the rest were killed."
Zhang Zhou's troops only had 3,000 people, and they did not have the ability to escort prisoners at all, and the Ming army basically Instead of using swords, it is better to use killing methods at critical moments.
"Oh." Zhang Zhou said, "In this way, tie them all to pillars and stand them in front of our camp, so that the Tatars who follow will see the consequences of opposing us. Send an order to the three armies, it turns out Stationed in the ground... General Sun, I may also trouble you to lead the troops to the north for twenty miles, and when they reach a suitable place, send out the command arrows to let our own brothers in the north know that their reinforcements are coming, and let them hold on! "
"Yes!"
Sun Shangqi was also full of confidence at this time and immediately accepted the order.
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After a great battle, the Ming Dynasty’s army began to adjust.
After all, after more than twenty days of marching, the Ming army was exhausted, and a battle last night also required the soldiers to take a break.
At this time, in the Tatar's Chinese army tent, Batu Meng saw Bals, who had retreated from the front line and was kneeling on the ground in a mess.
The generals of many tribes around looked at him with puzzled eyes.
"There are 30,000 elite cavalry, but the Ming court only has 4,000 or 5,000 soldiers and horses. How can it be so?"
Batu Munch knows the traps of words.
Initially, they believed that the Ming Dynasty had only two to three thousand soldiers and horses. Now that they suffered a defeat, they had to increase the number of Ming Dynasty reinforcements to make the defeat of this battle less tragic.
Bars said: "Khan, please punish me. It's because the general is incompetent. After the war started, all the troops fled on their own, causing the Ming army to attack at night, so that... the victory was almost defeated. Two hundred copper bulls There is not a single one left, out of the 15,000 warriors from our headquarters... only four or five thousand have returned..."
Yi Busha asked: "How many troops and horses were lost last night?"
"Around 20,000..." someone replied.
Thirty thousand soldiers and horses fought against three thousand, and as a result, our side lost two-thirds, more than 60%.
This is not counting the glory.
Even if we can recover some of the deserters who are running around headlessly, the losses in this battle will definitely be more than half...
This is because the soldiers on the front line have no basis for telling the truth. superior.
If someone told them that the Ming Dynasty's main battle force only had a few dozen chariots, and that it was actually five hundred soldiers and horses against thirty thousand, then they would be even more embarrassed... The transcoding has been serious recently, which makes us more motivated.Updates are faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you