Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of Tongzhou 1
Abatai and Hauge did not sleep well almost all night, and the sentry horses that were scattered out patrolled back and forth around Tongzhou, but they could not find the whereabouts of a large number of enemy troops, but the rangers who were scattered at night did not return before dawn, and this group of people is estimated to never return.
Both Abatai and Haug had a bad feeling, as if they were in a fog, and suddenly they were deaf and blind, and they didn't know what was going on around them, which was something that frightened the manager so much that neither Abatai nor Hauge knew what to do next.
Abatai and Hauge discussed all night, when dawn both of them stayed up, their eyes were red, and their spirits seemed a little aggrieved, and they still did not find the location of the enemy army after a night of exploration, but there was intelligence that there were many rangers of the Dazhong army around Tongzhou, which made Abatai and Hauge unable to determine what the Dazhong army was going to do next, why their army did not come, but sent so many scouts to haunt their vicinity.
After the light began to shine, Abatai still gritted his teeth and decided that the plan would not change for the time being, since no large-scale enemy troops were found, then they would continue to attack Tongzhou City first, and after conquering Tongzhou City, they would talk about what to do next.
And Hauge was very uneasy in his heart, but he couldn't judge the actions of the Great Chinese Army, and he couldn't say anything, so he agreed with Abatai's opinion, and took it one step at a time.
So after dawn, the Jiannu army once again came out of the camp, began to launch another onslaught on Tongzhou City, a large number of Jiannu army this time also made a bloody investment, with the army of the Han army banner soldiers and horses almost all passively used, to Tongzhou City walls, have launched a fierce attack, and mobilized all the artillery available to them, aimed at Tongzhou began to bombard.
However, Abatai did not make a fool of himself, and did not throw him into the battlefield as the main force of the Tartar soldiers, but left it at hand and used it as a reserve for contingencies, and while capturing the city of Tongzhou, he also sent sentinels to patrol in the southeast and northeast directions to detect movements in these two directions.
Just as Abatai and Hauge's overseers continued to storm Tongzhou City, Xiao Tianjian led his army to start a rapid march of the last thirty miles in the direction of Tongzhou City.
A few Jiannu rangers, just ten miles southeast of Tongzhou, looked at the army of the big Chinese army in front of them dumbfounded, they shook their heads, how could they not believe it, there are so many people and horses of the big Chinese army, so quietly appeared so close to Tongzhou City, as if the heavenly soldiers and generals descended here from the sky, and at this time, there were a group of scouts of the big Chinese army, one after another urged the horses to roar towards these Jiannu sentinels, startled these Tartar soldiers, Turning their horses' heads wildly, they frantically whipped their mounts, and with horror and shock, they rushed towards Tongzhou City like a desperate person.
Abatai was also taken aback when he received the urgent report, what he and Hauge were most worried about still happened, the Dazhong army was sure enough, it was relying on a large number of scouts and rangers to block the battlefield first, and in one day, they rushed from the direction of Tianjin Wei, and now they suddenly appeared on the battlefield of Tongzhou City under their noses, which really caught them off guard.
You must know that most of their army is now besieging Tongzhou City, and the available troops at hand are only less than 10,000 soldiers from their Jiannu, and they want to immediately withdraw the soldiers and horses besieging the city and line up to meet this large army, it is obviously too late in time, and the siege and field battle are completely different from the deployment of troops, and it is not easy to mobilize so many men and horses.
Although their Jiannu army has a lot of troops in Tongzhou, even more than the Dazhong army, but at this time all the departments are scattered around Tongzhou City, and it is impossible to gather these Mongolian soldiers and the Han army together for a while, so Abatai has actually completely lost the initiative on the battlefield at this time, but has to rush to the battle, with the reserves at hand, first block the offensive of the Dazhong army, and then stabilize the battle situation.
Although Abatai was shocked, he also did not lose the demeanor of a general, and on the surface he was as calm as possible, and immediately ordered those Jiannu soldiers under his command to start moving, with the blue flag Gebush Xian battalion under his command led by Hauge as the middle army, and the Mongolian cavalry and the two Aliha Chaoha battalions under his command were divided into left and right, and the Han army with the red flag infantry army following them assisted by Shi Tingzhu, and organized more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and first bypassed Tongzhou City to meet and kill the large Chinese army rushing over.
For Abatai's arrangement, Haoge has nothing to say, at the moment Abatai's arrangement is already the best way, only they use these forces first, to block the killing of the rushing Dazhong army, so as to free up time, let the rest of the men and horses gather over, and the Dazhong army to fight, and only in this way, they have a chance to win this battle, if they react a little slower, let the Dazhong army first crush the other Han army banners and Mongolian Eight Banners of the siege of the city, then they are likely to lose this battle very badly.
So Hauge did not dare to delay, immediately gathered men and horses, began to form a formation to move in the direction of the south of the city, and a large number of Jiannu cavalry and a small number of Mongolian cavalry on their flanks to protect, towards the large Chinese army, a short time, they saw the scarlet banners of the large Chinese army rising on the horizon from a distance, one by one the phalanx of the large Chinese army began to appear in their field of vision, and advanced towards them without stopping.
Abatai This is the first time to see the whole system of large-scale large Chinese soldiers, when he looked at it, he gasped in his heart, although he has heard many times about the military appearance of the large Chinese army, but he did not expect that the military appearance of the large Chinese army to such an extent, the entire phalanx of the large Chinese army, arranged extremely neatly, said that it is not good to say that it is like a knife cut, although in the march, but the queue of these large and medium army generals has always remained the same, and their dense marching drums can be heard in the distance, the generals of each phalanx, it can be said that every step is on the drum beat of their marching drums, and even the amplitude of the steps is almost the same, and the whole moves forward, but it is not chaotic at all.
Of course, this is a veteran of the battlefield for Abatai, who knows what this means, only a strictly trained army can do this, he asked himself, although he firmly believes that their Jiannu generals are the most powerful generals in the world, but he can't let his subordinates, these Jianzhou warriors, follow the example of the Great Chinese Army, to do this.
Looking at the equipment of the Great Chinese Army, you can only see their spears from a distance, and the soldiers in the army are equipped with a large number of neat and uniform muskets of the same standard, and in front of each phalanx, there are also columns of sword players, covering their large array with shields, forming a dense shield wall.
In addition to the infantry army, Abatai and many Jiannu generals were also horrified to see that between the various phalanxes of the Great Chinese Army, there were all kinds of artillery, which were also dragged into the battlefield by the Great Chinese Army, these cannons were obviously not easy to deal with, and the number was even more terrifying!
But what frightened them was not only these, with the appearance of the large Chinese army, there were many chariots in the large and medium army columns, and they were slowly pushed into the battlefield by the large and medium army generals on the wings, these chariots were inserted with thick plates, and each chariot had two small Fran cannons, and the accompanying foot soldiers also held long muskets, which was similar to the car battalion of the Ming army.
In addition, the soldiers of this large army, it can almost be said that everyone is wearing armor, which is beyond their expectations of Jiannu, among the slaves, after the era of Huang Taiji, the army is constantly changing, and gradually now the formation of Bayala soldiers, Aliha Chaoha battalion, Gebush Xian battalion three elite military branches as their full-time permanent troops, but also the main force of their troops, in addition to the Han army composed of Wuzhen Chaoha battalion as infantry, but when these soldiers will go to war, the number is far from enough, Therefore, in such a large-scale military operation to the south, they also have to recruit the banners and aha in each banner as slaves to use as auxiliaries, so among the Jiannu army, there are only about thirty percent of the real armored soldiers, but at this glance, the other party is all armored soldiers, and it is impossible to see which of them is an auxiliary soldier, which is also rare for the Guanning army in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty.
So when Abatai saw it, his heart was even more shocked, even Haoge, who had already seen the power of the Xingtian Army, also felt shocked, for more than two years, in his eyes, this has been renamed the Great Chinese Army, the Xingtian Army soldiers and horses, compared to the last time he saw it, it was much more strict and majestic, Haoge's heart sank to the bottom, and the secret road was afraid that it would be a bad thing today.
But it has come to this point, Abatai and Hauge have no way to retreat, they can only lead their troops to fight with Xiao Tianjian, and defeat the big Chinese army directly led by Xiao Tianjian in front of them, only have a chance to preserve, at least have to fight with them, before they can retreat, otherwise, now that their forces are scattered, once their main force withdraws from the battlefield, then the rest of the soldiers and horses that have not yet been assembled will only have the share of ice disintegration under the front of the big Chinese army!
So no matter how shocked they were, Abatai could only muster up the courage and order his troops to meet the whole army, and fight first.
Xiao Tianjian rode on the back of his BMW, and was also draped in a polished and polished shiny gilt steel mountain armor, draped in a blood-red coat, and immediately in the Chinese army, he was also looking at the Jiannu army that met him from a distance, and after seeing the Jiannu army, Xiao Tianjian's mouth showed a disdainful smile, no matter what the matter was, he was most afraid of putting it together, although the Jiannu army was notorious and known as the most powerful soldiers and horses in the world, but it was only for the Ming army, the Mongols and the Koreans, Compared with these large Chinese troops created under his command, it is nothing, his large Chinese army since the initial establishment of the army, it is the way of building the modern army, the army can be said to be all full-time professional soldiers, whether they are soldiers or auxiliaries, all must receive the most basic military training, after the division of the troops, but also to accept the professional training of the army, and gradually through years of conquest, only to create the current male army, compared with the opposite Jiannu army, The structure of his large and medium-sized army is more reasonable, the distribution of arms and the coordination of various arms are also more tight, the quality of equipment is also better, and the tactics used are more advanced, and at present, his strength is obviously stronger than that of the other side, and his morale is even more than that of the other side.
So he was in a very relaxed mood at this moment, but he slowly lowered the big gun in his hand forward, pointed at the Jiannu army in front of him, and opened his mouth to say: "According to the established plan, I will defeat them!" Today he rarely refers to himself as me, and it is in an accentuated tone.