Chapter 75 Battle of Tongzhou 2

With Xiao Tianjian's order, there was a long trumpet sound in the Chinese army. The sound of the trumpet was low, but it was shocking and could be transmitted far away from the battlefield. With the sound of the trumpet, the marching phalanxes began one after another in the command of the officers. After stopping, they maintained a reasonable distance from each other, forming a scale-like array, and the front also stretched out, forming a scale several miles wide, covering the Jiannu army welcomed by the Hate gathered together.

The artillery with the army was unified. All the cannons, including the three-pound cannon, were gathered into three artillery groups. They were placed in the army in a character shape on the front, forming control of the whole battlefield, and the chariots of the barracks also stopped at the two wings of the army and were immediately released horizontally. They got on each other and quickly formed a strong battalion defense line on the two wings, which greatly reduced the threat of the Jiannu cavalry to the two wings.

Those artillerymen are probably the busiest people at this moment. After being ordered to stop moving forward, they took off the mules and horses that were pulling the cannon at a fast speed, took them behind the artillery team, and handed them over to the care of special soldiers. At the same time, they took the cannons from the ammunition truck and immediately pushed them to the front and put them on the officers. At the designated gun position, there is a special gunner who is responsible for unloading the ammunition from the ammunition car and the accessories of various cannons. With dazzling movements, he puts a cannon on the ground like magic. In just a moment, he is ready to fire.

Although the twelve-pound cannon is very heavy, under the service of more than 20 gunners, it is still quickly placed behind the artillery array. Such a cannon is a very terrible big killer on the battlefield. The longest range can hit the solid shell four or five miles away, and the effective range is also close to about two miles. If the bullet is scattered If it is bombarded, there are hundreds of projectiles, which can almost cover an area as large as a basketball court at a distance of three or four hundred steps. Therefore, this thing is generally used by the Dazhong Army as a siege gun, but this time it was specially ordered by Xiao Tianjian to act with the army and temporarily serve as a field battle. The cannon is used. Once it fires, it will be a nightmare for Jiannu.

Fortunately, even Xiao Tianjian doesn't have much of a 12-pound cannon at this time. Their main guns are still six-pound and eight-pound guns. The power of these two cannons is smaller than that of a 12-pound cannon, but when used as a field gun, it is also not easy to provoke.

As for the three-pound gun, it belongs to the direct artillery at the battalion level. It has little power and limited range, but it also depends on what kind of gun it has. Although the three-pound gun has a limited range, the effective range of three or four hundred meters is still far more than the ordinary old artillery, and the accuracy of the shelling is very high. Now it is trained by the large and medium-sized army. A well-trained gunner can directly hit two door-sized targets with this three-pound gun at a distance of 200 steps, and can almost accurately shell the point.

As the god of war, Xiao Tianjian can be said to have devoted a lot of effort to his artillery construction. A considerable part of the silver consumed by weapons and equipment in the large and medium-sized army has been spent on these cannons, making their artillery construction. By this time, it has been perfect day by day and can be called For the god of war.

After the three artillery battalions were launched, they were quickly prepared for shelling. At this time, the Jiannu on the side of Abatai was still in the opposite team. At this time, the only small number of artillery had not been laid.

Speaking of Xiao Tianjian's secret killing Tongzhou City, he really cheated Abatai and his group of slaves. Abatai is sending troops to attack Tongzhou City. The limited artillery brought by the army basically bombarded Tongzhou City. At this time, it can't be withdrawn for a while, so in Abatai's army, the cannon is now. There were not many guns at all, but there were only a few cannons, and it was quite troublesome to spread them. Therefore, after the two armies approached a distance of hundreds of steps, Jiannu saw that the Dazhong army took the initiative to stop moving forward and began to line up. They also hurriedly began to prepare for the battle. Unfortunately, their deployment speed could not catch up with the deployment of the Dazhong army, which had been kept neat. In contrast, the speed of the array seems much more messy, and this morale is suppressed by the large and medium-sized army.

Xiao Tianjian would not tell Jiannu about war etiquette. The array had been arranged, so he ordered to start shelling. It did not give the Jiannu army enough time to react at all. The three artillery battalions began to fire almost at the same time. Suddenly, the artillery camp position of the Dazhong Army was like a volcano erupting, and all kinds of artillery began to ignite one after another. All types of shells were roared at the Jiannu army.

Some Jiannu soldiers looked pale at the continuous gunfire of the Dazhong Army on the opposite side, and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in their hearts. They could almost see the cannonballs fired by the Dazhong Army with their naked eyes. They flew across the sky in the air and began to fall towards them in a half-arcise, but they had no possibility to dodge. Once they dodged, the whole array would immediately be chaotic. In the harsh military-building army, those who moved in the battle without authorization were a death penalty, so they could only stare at the shells falling, hitting them heavily in their crowd, and suddenly opened a bloody alley in their crowd, and the shells fell. After the ground, the momentum did not decrease. Among the soldiers of the Jiannu army, they jumped and continued to fly fast. Because it did not rain for a long time, the land outside Tongzhou City was strong at this time, which just provided favorable conditions for the shells to bounce. As a result, the shelling effect was excellent. After a round of shooting, more than a hundred Jiannu soldiers were bombarded and killed, the highest A second-class Jiala Zhangjing also became a victim of this first round of shelling. Half of his head was directly cut off by a shell, and one head fell from the war horse.

Both Abatai and Haug were very scared. They didn't expect that the large and medium-sized troops would fire artillery so quickly. They didn't even give them time to arrange a large array, so they began to bombard them, and the other party had a large number of artillery. This was the first round of shelling, which caused them a lot of casualties, so Abatai ordered urgently. An Aliha Chaoha battalion was launched on each wing, and immediately launched an attack on the Dazhong army, contained the shelling of the Dazhong army, disrupted the positions of the Dazhong army, and covered their main force's attack on the Dazhong army.

Abatai is not a fool. He also sees that they are at an absolute disadvantage at present. If they really fight against the Dazhong army, their guns are not theirs at all, so they can't stop to fight head-on with the Dazhong army, but to give full play to their strong assault ability and take the initiative to launch an attack. In order to defeat the large and medium-sized army front on the opposite side.

In Abatai's view, although the array of the Dazhong Army is neat, it looks relatively thin, and the width is so wide that the whole front is relatively weak. If he can take the initiative to attack and insert it directly into the front of the Dazhong Army, he can tear the Dazhong Army. Then fight closely and give full play to their advantages. They still hope to win this battle.

So he did not dare to delay any more. While sending the two-winged cavalry to attack, he urgently ordered the marching troops in the central position to advance and attack the right-wing front of the Dazhong Army. At the same time, he sent people to order the rest of the enslavery who had not yet assembled and withdrew from Tongzhou City, and quickly gathered for the battlefield to reinforce his main force and strive for Give full play to their advantages and defeat the front of this large and medium-sized army.

Abatai's choice is undoubtedly very correct. Historically, their Jiannu was often at a disadvantage in the battle with the Ming army, but the soldiers of the Jiannu army can often give full play to their brave and good fighting style, concentrating their forces to attack the Ming army's large array, while the Ming army is often different in heart, morale is not high, and often under I couldn't stand the impact of Jiannu. As a result, when the Ming army's equipment and strength had an absolute advantage, they were often broken through by the Jiannu army. In the end, they were defeated by the Jiannu army, and even the whole army was destroyed.

Therefore, Abatai is used to using this method to deal with the Han barbarians they despise. He believes that since their tactics are effective against the Ming army, it should also be effective to deal with the Dazhong army, which is also Han barbarians. What's more, the front of the Dazhong army is obviously thin, which is more suitable for them to use this method to rush to the front and finally tear the big The formation of the Chinese army.

But he forgot that the biggest difference between the Dazhong Army and the Ming Army is that the officers of the Dazhong Army are not the generals of the Ming Army. They are small warlords. They will only care about protecting themselves and leave the battlefield regardless of the overall situation. The whole Dazhong Army is a whole, and there is no small group to speak to speak of, although the Dazhong Army has also Taking the town army as a unit, it is divided into several towns, but it is impossible for the officers of the Dazhong Army to develop into a warlord group under the military system set up by Xiao Tianjian. Even if it is possible, it will happen many years later!

Xiao Tianjian watched the shelling situation in front of him and was satisfied with the effect of the first round of shelling. The landing point of the shells basically covered the array of the Jiannu army. Even if there were no shells that were hit, they were mostly close-targeted, which was not too outrageous.

So he nodded slightly and was satisfied with the artillery's shelling, but asked that the next round of shelling must be more fierce and accurate.

But immediately he found that there was something to do with the Jiannu army, so he immediately looked at the Jiannu army again. When he saw the two cavalry of the Jiannu army coming out and rushing straight to the two wings of his army, he laughed. This Abatai was very cute and good at playing cards according to the routine, but he did not look at the Dazhong Army. There are two vehicle battalions on the two wings as the line of defense. He sent two cavalry of less than 3,000 people to achieve the effect. Isn't it the same as death?

So he didn't even bother to order. He just let the generals below deal with this situation by themselves. Li Dingguo and Yan Shuting of the two wings will deal with this situation.

(Since it was changed to a daily update, there must be a lot of brothers who are unhappy, but please forgive me. The cold wind is really not idle. Now in addition to reading books every day is an idea, or it is to check a large amount of information to prepare for the opening of a new book! It's not easy to work almost fifteen or sixteen hours a day! This is inevitable for every writer. When a book is close to the end, it takes a lot of energy and time on the new book, especially the author who writes history, and prepares a large amount of materials, so please don't be angry! Today, I would like to thank General Mao Mao and his two intoxicated brothers for their reward! The cold wind will dedicate a good book to everyone with ten times the effort! Thank you!)