Chapter 1245: Danger is everywhere

"Dutong, ready!" Sima Huang Fan of the Fifth Brigade pushed Luo Datong, who was staring at the battlefield.

"The artillery fire must be fierce, the speed must be fast, and bring me all the people back before the enemy reacts!" Luo Datong stared at Huang Fan with his eyes and said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, you will complete the task!" Huang Fan stood up and saluted.

"Be careful, we have too many brothers who can't come back, you must come back for me!" After Luo Datong returned the salute, he put his hands on his shoulders and patted him a few times with some excitement.

"Don't worry, we haven't accompanied Your Majesty into Tokyo yet, and we won't die!" Huang Fan smiled, saluted again, and then turned around and went down to the city.

Luo Datong stood on the city wall and watched him leave, at this time there were already several teams of soldiers under the city gathered, Huang Fan went down the city immediately after the soldiers moved away to resist the horse, there has been cleared out of a passage that only allows two people to pass, he beckoned the soldiers to rush out of the passage, through the shadow of the river embankment before a hundred steps to stop.

A soldier took out a fire fold and shook it, and spit out a flame with a soft 'poof', and he drew a circle in the air, and swayed it from side to side a few times, and the cannon suddenly rang out, breaking the silence of the night. The shelling concentrated all the medium artillery of the 5th Brigade Artillery Regiment and reinforced the heavy artillery regiment of the Artillery Brigade, totaling more than 40 guns, to carry out artillery fire on the front.

The width of the river is no more than 20 zhang, and it can be said that there is no gap coverage in terms of the medium and heavy artillery equipped by the Song army, even if the interval shooting is used to ensure the continuity of firepower, it can still ensure that the indiscriminate shooting covers every inch of land on the front line, and in the eyes it seems that a burning wall of fire is advancing forward, which can be said to be where the artillery fire passes without a single inch of grass.

Luo Datong looked at the sky red by the artillery fire, and seemed to be deaf to the thunderous cannonade, and the roar of 'Dutong, don't open the city, don't save our ......' still echoed in his ears, bringing his thoughts back to the daytime battle, and his heart was also full of remorse.

After today's battle began, the Meng Yuan army could only continue to use crowd tactics to charge in turn in order to fight a bloody way in the face of the Song army's superiority in firepower, but they were not all good at it, and they were also looking for weaknesses in the Song army's defense in the battle. The enemy soon discovered that the Song army was protruding from the firepower outside the town, which not only gave them a lot of casualties to the follow-up reinforcements, but also became an obstacle on the way to the attack, making it impossible for them to quickly mobilize forces to consolidate the breakthrough after the breakthrough.

In addition, the enemy also found that these firepower points hanging outside the main position were also the weakness of the Song army, and while maintaining pressure on the town, they turned to mobilize heavy troops to try to pull out these firepower points and eliminate the henchmen on the way to the attack. At the same time, it was also not without the intention of encircling the point to send reinforcements, so as to lure the Song army out of the town to rescue, they could take the opportunity to turn into a melee and seek an opportunity to seize the walled gate.

Luo Datong also quickly discovered the change in the tactics of the enemy army. The firepower points on the periphery are generally units equipped with a detachment equipped with a hundred guns, supplemented by a mortar squad, and the strength varies slightly according to the size of the firepower point, but the maximum number of troops is only 50 people. Each fire point can support each other, and can be reinforced by medium and long range artillery in the town.

According to the scale of the previous battles, the deployment of troops at the firepower points is completely sufficient, and at least it can protect itself. However, the scale of the enemy's attack in this battle was far greater than that of the 5th Brigade, and the position was chosen on the earthen platform, but this height did not occupy an advantage in the surrounding flat terrain, and it soon fell into the predicament of being attacked from all sides.

When Luo Datong saw the firepower outside the town, under the siege of thousands of enemy troops, it was like a few small reefs in the turbulent sea, constantly washed by waves of turbulent waves. As the saying goes, 'ants bite more than they kill elephants', and although the enemy can be killed by cross-firing at the beginning, the various firing points can quickly take care of themselves and fall into a situation of fighting on their own. The artillery deployed in the town was under the fierce attack of the enemy, and although it had tried its best to provide support for the firing points outside the town, it was ultimately overwhelmed, and the enemy took advantage of the gap between the artillery cooling and stopping firing to carry out a surprise attack.

Seeing that the forward firing points were flooded one after another under the attack of the enemy troops; Watching their soldiers and brothers fight back desperately, some people will hang grenades on their bodies and pounce into the enemy group. Some people did not have time to reload their ammunition, so they jumped out of the fortifications with bayonets and fought the enemy; When the artillery is approaching and the mortar is no longer able to fire, the artillery ignites the fuse of the shell and throws it directly at the enemy, and when the enemy pounces on the position, they load the shell in reverse into the barrel and blow up the cannon, themselves and the enemy together.

When the position could no longer be held, almost every position issued a flag to the command post, but it was not a request for rescue, but a request that the capital should never send troops out of the city to rescue them. And Luo Datong also saw that after the capture of the position, the Mengyuan enemy army, which suffered heavy casualties, not only divided the corpses of the dead Song soldiers to vent their anger, but also beheaded the captured soldiers under the city to demonstrate to the officers and soldiers defending the city.

This situation made Luo Datong sad and indignant, but he still maintained a trace of calmness in his mind, did not give the order to risk going out of the city to rescue, and stopped the head of the regiment who was already not calm. It was only ordered to strengthen fire support for several firing points that had not yet been lost, and the artillerymen were also red-eyed, and continued to shoot despite the danger of artillery explosions, and finally resolved the crisis. The battle lasted until dark, but the enemy still besieged several points of fire with heavy troops......

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the rescue troops routed the enemy troops and began to return to the city one after another, rescuing more than 200 trapped officers and soldiers and collecting more than 100 corpses. But their sacrifice was not without merit, and this small force not only killed and wounded a large number of enemy troops, but also dragged the enemy army for a whole day. Luo Datong personally sent the wounded soldiers to the medical hospital for ambulance, paid tribute to the deceased, and temporarily placed the corpses in the temple. After everything was dealt with, the east had already brightened, and the war would start again.

Surprisingly, the enemy army did not continue to attack the city on this day, but turned to the old road north of the town. Luo Datong was puzzled, and everyone thought that it was possible to attack the city for two days, but the enemy suffered heavy casualties but failed to advance an inch, and chose to break through from outside the town. And they did not know that Fu Li's enemy army had been defeated and fled, and Tutuha was facing the situation of being attacked on his back, so he was in a hurry to break through.

Despite the unclear situation, the intensity of the fighting was in no way inferior to that of the previous two days. In the face of the attacking enemy, the Song army relied on the fortifications built to resist the enemy, although the enemy attacked fiercely, but the Song army did not lose the momentum at all. When the battle between the two armies was fierce, the cavalry brigade launched a surprise attack on the flank of the Mengyuan army. It is well known that once the cavalry has successfully detoured back to the enemy's flank, it can launch a surprise attack, preemptively attacking the enemy in a state of ill-preparation, and even if the enemy is able to organize an effective resistance in the end, it will only have to be done at a considerable cost.

In the past, when the two armies fought, most of the battles of the Song army were mostly infantry formations and defenses, relying on powerful firearms to kill and wound the enemy cavalry, and then pursue the defeated enemy. In addition, the number of cavalry of the Song army was not large, and the formed cavalry was used as a strategic reserve and would not be used easily. The Meng Yuan army was in a passive defensive posture in this battle, and the tactics it relied on to rely on were cavalry and foot, as well as tactics such as rapid maneuvering and roundabout attacks, which could not be of great use to the Song army.

After the defeat of the Yuan army in several battles, they also realized that under the sharp firearms of the Song army, the previously invincible cavalry and archery effect began to decline. Because under the blow of firearms, the attack of the light cavalry archers on the infantry will inevitably suffer greater losses. The infantry of the Song Army, equipped with flintlock pistols and bayonets, could undertake the tasks of long-range attack and hand-to-hand combat at the same time, and could easily realize the conversion of shooting and impact, and their combat capability was greatly enhanced, making it difficult for them to take advantage of them in field battles.

So since the outbreak of the war, the cavalry of the Song army has been in a state of soy sauce and has not played a real role. But this does not show that the cavalry of the Song army is not strong in combat, and the cavalry brigade of the Imperial Front Protector Army has already formed an army in Qiongzhou, with extremely strict training and the best equipment, which can be described as the elite in the army. They suddenly killed the battlefield from the flank, and immediately disrupted the enemy's attack, the Meng Yuan army fought and retreated, and the Song army did not give them a chance, and chased and killed all the way to the inevitable encounter with the enemy cavalry.

Meng Yuan started as a cavalry archer, and the guards and guards were also organized, and the Mengyuan Kipchak Guard was a veteran of the enemy, skilled in fighting with bows and horses, and did not participate in the negligent training in Tuntian like the Han army, so it still maintained its original combat effectiveness. However, the cavalry brigade of the Imperial Front Protector Army was not weak, and the bravery and skillful tactics they showed in fighting the cavalry of the Yuan army were actually not much inferior to the enemy army. Especially at this moment, the Song army occupies the initiative on the battlefield.

The two sides were inseparable in the wilderness for a while, and the cavalry brigade was also in charge of Fang Sheng, and personally led the troops to charge and kill, and changed their horses three times in the battle, and beheaded Jia Mao, the deputy commander of the central guard of the Han army, and the main generals were all like this, which shows that the battle was only fierce. And the soldiers under his command also fought without retreating, fighting desperately, destroying the front, fighting with the enemy more than once, killing a few in and out.

However, the Guardian Cavalry Brigade only had a few thousand people, which was still weak for tens of thousands of Mengyuan cavalry troops, especially the Kipchak Guards gave them a lot of pressure. As the casualties increased, Fang Sheng led his troops to fight and retreat, preparing to leave the battlefield. However, the enemy was in hot pursuit, and fearing that retreating into position would break his own defenses, led the army to retreat north.

The two sides fought in the movement and gradually broke away from the main battlefield, but Fang Sheng knew that he could not retreat, otherwise the enemy would bypass the blocking position of the Song army and flee to Yingtianfu, so he ordered some soldiers to dismount and fight, occupied a Tuling to defend, relying on the defense of Tuling, and the cavalry of both sides launched another big fight near Tuling. However, the superior enemy gradually divided the cavalry brigade, leaving the Song army, which lacked artillery support to hold the commanding heights, in a difficult situation......

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