Chapter 101 (2) Battle of Shanhaiguan 8
After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin suddenly realized, Xiao Tianjian slapped his head and laughed: "I see! I didn't expect that! What Mr. Lu said makes sense! Hehe! This slave chief Taiji is his heart can be punished! But I'm afraid it's what I want to do! In that case, then I will grant his wish! Give me the order to go down and give me a hard beating! Since these Mongolian lackeys even want their masters to die, let's not show mercy to their men! Be ruthless and let them know that they are following the wrong master! ”
Li Xin also laughed, and immediately passed on Xiao Tianjian's will, in fact, there was no need for them to order at this time, and Diao Zheng and Liu Yaoben on both wings would not be polite to these Mongolian soldiers.
When they saw the Mongolian cavalry come out, they all grinned, Diao Zheng was even more angry Luo Li in the middle of the lead of the troops to kill, was worried that Luo Li would rob the credit, no of their share, at this time when they saw the Mongolian soldiers killed, so they immediately laughed.
"These donkey day tartars are crazy! Dare to come over and send him to death at this time, someone! Don't lose the people of our second town, give Lao Tzu a hard beating, and leave as many as you come! ”
As soon as his words fell, the artillery battalion on the left flank immediately began to fire their cannons, and quickly hit the oncoming Mongol cavalry on the battlefield.
In addition, under Diao Zheng's mobilization, including Liu Yaoben on the right wing, he also quickly adjusted the generals under his command, and quickly took the battalion as a unit and began to form a phalanx, each phalanx is relatively independent, but it can just cooperate with each other, leaving a certain passage for the enemy cavalry to pass through, so as to avoid the Mongolian cavalry from rushing into the phalanx, which can effectively alleviate the impact of the cavalry, so that it will automatically disperse towards these vacant passages, and it will become their best prey.
Such a method has been tested by the Chinese army, and the effect can be said to be quite good, the reason why they will come up with such a method is actually because of Xiao Tianjian, a super cheat, plays a decisive role, Xiao Tianjian, as a military fan, has seen a lot of examples, by chance, he has seen such a way to deal with cavalry, with a scattered infantry formation, although the troops are scattered, but it can effectively buffer the impact of the enemy cavalry, if the enemy cavalry wants to fight hard, This method of formation is very effective, and the enemy cavalry will unconsciously rush into the formation along the left passage, and just fall into the hunt of the musketeers of the Great Medium Army.
Xiao Tianjian had already used this method when he was in Tongzhou City, and at that time, he beat the Jiannu cavalry of Ge Bushixian's battalion led by Abatai to the ground.
Now the Mongol cavalry rushed over, and it happened to use this method to deal with them again, so the two wings of the large and medium armies, under the command of their respective generals, quickly began to change formations, and at the same time organized firecrackers to start intercepting and shooting at the Mongol cavalry.
Long-distance artillery bombardment of cavalry, especially the effect of solid cannonballs is not good, the cavalry charge when the distance between each other is relatively large, far less dense than the queue of the infantry army, so the cannonballs lose a lot, but it can cause a lot of psychological pressure on these Mongolian cavalry, if they can't hit, forget it, as long as they are hit by a cannonball, they will immediately be torn to pieces with people and horses, and turn into a ball of flesh and blood, the scene is extremely tragic, some horses and horses are swept by cannonballs, when even if the legs of the horses are torn off, even the people and horses will fall to the ground, The Mongol cavalry could not be killed by the men and horses behind them.
As the Mongolian cavalry accelerated and approached, a row of firecrackers also began to fire at about 100 paces, the Mongolian cavalry are light cavalry, people can wear armor, but the war horses are rarely armored, so the method taken by the large and medium-sized musketeers is to shoot people first and shoot horses, each row of guns is released, and the Mongolian cavalry will immediately turn over a lot of people on their backs.
These Mongols also used all their tricks, pressing their bodies as low as possible on horseback, and almost not seeing their figures in front of them, one by one desperately urging their horses to rush forward, while preparing their bows and arrows on their horses, under the supervision of their banner master, quickly accelerated towards the approach of the Great Chinese Army.
The Mongolian soldiers immediately rose up on their horses and began to fire their bows and arrows at the formation of the large Chinese army, and immediately sprinkled a rain of arrows into the phalanx of the large Chinese army, which immediately caused a certain amount of damage to the general of the large Chinese army.
But the luck of the Mongolian soldiers is basically over here, whether it is by virtue of the instinct of men or horses, the various phalanxes of the Great Chinese Army have put down a cluster of spears at this time, and become like hedgehogs, as long as people are not crazy, they will not ride their horses to these spears to collide, so the Mongolian soldiers put arrows on horseback, and after rushing to the front of the Great Chinese Army, they have turned their horses and instinctively rushed to the passage between those phalanxes.
But when they rushed into these passages, they found that they were wrong, and it was too late for them to regret it.
As soon as the Mongolian cavalry rushed into these passages, they found that there were firecrackers on both sides, and these musketeers had long been ready to fire, when the Mongolian cavalry rushed into the passage, it was equivalent to exposing all their flanks in front of the large Chinese army.
The war is so tragic, at this time on the battlefield is full of all kinds of noisy sounds, the sound of firecrackers, shouts of killing, cannons, screams and the neighing of countless war horses, a Mongolian soldier's war horse was shot and neighed and fell to the ground, the Mongolian soldiers on their backs fell to the ground heavily, even if the Mongolian soldiers are superb in riding, so high-speed galloping, they want not to break their necks, it is not easy, even if someone is lucky not to be killed, when they get up, they will immediately be knocked to the ground again by the bullet.
The Mongolian soldiers have never encountered such a battle formation, in their opinion, the war should be gathered together, so that it is more stable, where did I think that the large Chinese army was divided into a phalanx, leaving a passage for them to pass, and these passages are simply the road to hell, as long as they rush in, few people can rush out again, these passages are like monsters that devour human lives, swallowing batches of Mongolian soldiers, not even spitting out the bones, thousands of Mongolian soldiers can be said to be in the blink of an eye, disappeared into the two wings of the Great Chinese Army.
Huang Taiji continued to watch the battle situation in front of him from a distance, and when he saw such a strange formation arranged on both sides of the Dazhong Army, he didn't understand it at first, but then when he saw the Mongolian soldiers rushing into the two wings, one by one the beaten people turned on their backs, and he knew that this kind of formation of the Dazhong Army was simply used to deal with their troops, so he secretly said that he was lucky, fortunately, he sent Mongolian cavalry, if he sent out the vest soldiers of the Ge Bush Xian battalion under his command, It is estimated that he was still killed by the Dazhong Army at this time, and it was a person who turned on his back.
Seeing that the battle has become like this, no matter what victory, don't think about it anymore, calculate that after a fierce battle in this short hour, they Jiannu lost thousands of men and horses, Huang Taiji finally decided to give up at this time, because he knew that even if the Mongolian Eight Banners were withdrawn at this time, they were basically disabled, even if they went back, they wanted to confront them Jiannu, they had no strength, as for those Han soldiers! Now is not the time to exhaust them, after all, they are much easier to control than the Mongols.
So Huang Taiji gave the order and began to retreat, but this time he retreated, not a rout, but a heavy army, slowly retreating, and did not leave much chance for the Dazhong army.
When Xiao Tianjian saw the far Huang Taiji side rolled upside down and began to slowly retreat from the battlefield, he glanced at Lu Xiangsheng and said with a smile: "I really let Mr. Lu say it!" The Slave Chiefs didn't want to fight us to the death here, and they finally understood that they had no choice but to retreat to the gates in the face of us!
Li Xin, what do you think should happen next? ”
Li Xin heard Xiao Tianjian ask his opinion, so he immediately replied: "Go back to the saint!" Jiannu didn't want to fight a decisive battle with our army today, and their strength had not lost much, I'm afraid it is unlikely that they want to annihilate it in a battle today! However, Weichen thought that if they wanted to leave so easily, they couldn't be too cheap! We can give them a ride! If it goes well, you can take advantage of the situation to recover Ningyuan City! ”
Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction, and agreed with Li Xin's opinion, today he also saw that Jiannu actually did not have the idea of fighting to the death, the reason why Huang Taiji wanted to fight such a battle again, in fact, his purpose was to consume part of the strength of the Mongols and Han people, and personally test the combat strength of his large army, now since he wants to withdraw his troops, then in the current situation, it is impossible for him to take this opportunity to eat the army of Jiannu in one go, and he knows, Dealing with Jiannu is not an overnight thing, since Jiannu doesn't want to fight a decisive battle here, then they can rely on the advantage of their large number of cavalry and withdraw to Liaodong, so he can only watch them withdraw for the time being, but Li Xin is right, if you want to slip away so cheaply, it is absolutely impossible.
So with Xiao Tianjian's approval, Li Xin immediately ordered, and the whole army began to press, forcing the Jiannu army to retreat.
Wu Xiang stood on the city of Shanhaiguan, of course, he saw the battle outside the city clearly, although he was full of confidence in Xiao Tianjian to lead the troops to win, but he still didn't expect that the victory came so easily, in his former eyes, Jiannu was so terrible, almost invincible, but when Jiannu met the big Chinese army, but suddenly became weak and ridiculous, first of all, Jiannu imitated the tactics of the big Chinese army, and sent their Wuzhen Chaoha battalion to fight hard with the big Chinese army, but it didn't come to pass, he was beaten like a child by the Dazhong Army and was defeated.
Then Jiannu sent the Mongolian cavalry to attack the flanks of the Dazhong Army from both wings, but the Dazhong Army just switched a strange formation, and those Mongolian cavalry crashed into the phalanx of the Dazhong Army like a wild donkey. The wolf with his tail between his legs ran away and fled back.
Wu Xiang didn't even dare to think about this if it was the Ming army in the past, but after Xiao Tianjian came today, he personally led the troops under the pass, showing a new tactic for him and many old Ming army departments, which made them all breathtaking.
Originally, they thought that this time Xiao Tianjian led the troops to fight, and this battle would definitely be very hard and tragic, but they didn't expect that it was just noon, and the Jiannu Tartars rolled up their flags and began to retreat.
"Is this a victory?" Wu Xiang couldn't believe his eyes, and turned his head to look at the subordinates who were watching the battle with him in the city.
"Victorious! We've won! What a victory! Ha ha! Jiannu is running away with his tail between his legs! Ha ha! ......" The generals who stood on the tower to watch the battle were all overjoyed, and couldn't help laughing and cheering.
"Qi Wu Junmen, there is a decree from the saint to order you to temporarily guard Shanhaiguan, and the army will go to pursue the Jiannu army!" At this time, a herald of the Great Chinese Army suddenly pointed to the location of the Chinese army under the city and said to Wu Xiang.
Wu Xiang looked down, and really saw the position of the Chinese army where Xiao Tianjian was, and the order flag was flying at this time, he couldn't understand the meaning of the command flag of the big Chinese army, but the herald who stayed in the city could understand it, so he immediately replied: "Return to the saint, the last general will get the order!" Please rest assured! ”