Chapter 334: Breaking the City with Techniques and Unstained Blood (4)
The city gate was broken, and the Teng people did not defend it, so the Yue people fled to the inner city one after another to seek refuge.
The defending side had nowhere to retreat, and if the Mo Men came up, they would have no chance to regroup.
The ink man slowly lined up on the city wall, and said secretly: "Although the Mo family has the ability to break the city, it is a pity that they are not enough to respond to the battle. Although the formation was neat, the advance was slow. I originally thought that if I couldn't hold it, I abandoned Simon's soldiers and took the rest back to Langya...... Now you can close as much as you can! ”
He boarded the car and asked his attendants and guards to collect the Yue people who had retreated, but he didn't care about preparing too much, and he didn't even have time to prepare food, so he gave up all the baggage, anyway, Ni, Zou and other countries would provide grain and grass, and the distance between them was only a few dozen miles.
Under the panic of the Yue people, they re-arrayed and gathered about 1,400 people, and the people were panicked and frightened, and they could not fight again.
Regardless of the Yue people who were still in the city, they fled towards the northeast gate, and the Teng people hid at home along the way and did not dare to stop them.
Out of the city gate, there was really no army stationed here, only a few ink men on horseback hurriedly retreated, as if to return.
The eagle secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that if he fled by himself at this time, these gathered routs would disperse in an instant, and it would be difficult to explain to these clansmen and families when he returned to Yuedi, so he could only slow down the speed and let the carriage move slowly.
It was more difficult to retreat than to attack, and if the carriage had moved a little faster, the soldiers who had been easily assembled would have been defeated.
The Vietnamese people couldn't help but look back, and sometimes they would be nervous and uneasy, but after walking for two or three miles, they still didn't see the pursuers, and they were finally relieved.
Although he breathed a sigh of relief, he did not dare to stay here, so he could only retreat northeast along the bank of the Jing River along the road to Nidi.
Ten miles to the northeast, the Jing River and the Xiaojing River form a pass here, only more than one mile wide.
In the plains of this place, the loud noise that came from Tengdi just now, Meng Sheng heard it clearly.
Qu Jiang on the side said: "The city has been broken!" He said that the city would be broken in a few days, and the city would really be broken, and he didn't know what the casualties were? How many people were killed or injured? ”
Meng Sheng looked at the smoke and dust rising in the distance, and said with a smile: "Before attacking Tengdi, Shi had already visited the city wall of Tengdi and made plans. He has the skill to defend the city, and it is easy to attack the city. I estimate that there are only 100 dead and wounded, which is enough to show the reputation of my Mo family. ”
This is true, and now the besieging side often chooses to besiege the city, forcing the city to surrender by running out of food. Either the embankment was dug and flooded, so that the rammed earth of the city wall was soaked in water.
If the rest of the strong attacks are made, there will always be huge losses, and the attacking and defending sides will have the advantage. If more than 100 people can be killed or injured to break through Tengdi, it is enough to let the world know that the Mo family will not only defend the city, but also attack the city, so that when the giant and the princes of the world will agree to fight and benefit the world in the future, the weight of the words will be more sufficient.
The brigade led by Meng Sheng plus the cavalry on the other side of the river had been waiting here for a long time, and they were not allowed to live, so they could only eat those military rations and dried cakes.
Compared with the previous meals, just the dry cakes of military rations are already good. The poem "Picking Rose" starts with picking roses, and those soldiers who are homesick on the border can be seen to often pick roses and eat.
Hearing the loud noise coming from Tengcheng, the soldiers were immediately alert, and had already ordered that no noise should be made, let alone drumming.
Meng Sheng only asked people to pass on orders and prepare in formation. After the order was issued, the team quickly assembled and lined up, divided into three teams, and the characters were configured.
The musketeers were in front, already reloaded.
Most of the soldiers in this brigade were participating in combat for the first time, training for several years, and this was the first time they were on the battlefield, and they were both nervous and excited.
Fortunately, the officers around him and the front row of the leading non-commissioned officers took the lead to stabilize everyone's emotions, and everyone clenched their spears and waited quietly.
Many musketeers who fired for the first time did not dare to blink, for fear of missing the enemy, or for fear that their arquebuses would ignite the powder jars on their bodies.
The deputy musketeers, armed with short swords and usually carrying weapons and supplies for the musketeers, crouched in the bushes by the river, and once they had dispersed the disorderly flight of the Viet Congers, they came forward to chase and kill.
Meng Sheng held the short sword, his fingers unconsciously tapped the sword body, and his heart was also anxious.
He killed a lot, and when he was young, he was so brave and fierce that he was not anxious about the upcoming battle, but he thought of the words that were appropriate before parting.
Shi told him that if the Yue people really fled to this side, this would be the first field battle since the righteous master really became a formation, and it must be fought beautifully, and it will be counted as a test.
If this battle is fought well, not only will the troops from the Yue country be slower, but it will also greatly increase the morale of the volunteers and make them more confident in fighting in the future.
In the future, there will be a field battle, and the Mo family has the means to attack and defend the city, but the field battle is rarely summarized. If you can't fight in the field, whether you want to choose the Son of Heaven in the future, or whether you want to restrain the kings of the world and kill the army, it's all fantasy.
If you win, you will win, and Meng Sheng is very confident in this.
It's just that how to win beautifully, how to annihilate the fleeing Yue people with minimal casualties, this is the problem that Meng Sheng has to consider.
When do you have to form a formation? When can you disperse the pursuit? This is something that must be mastered by the general, and Meng Sheng is a little worried in his heart.
The righteous division is mainly based on foot soldiers, which is completely different from the previous war mode, no longer the foot soldiers follow the chariot after the chariot rushes into battle, but need to rely on the mobility ability of the foot soldiers to make up for the gap in the battlefield and decisively seize the fighters.
Meng Sheng took a long breath, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and waited quietly.
When the sharp-eyed scout discovered the Yue people who were retreating towards this side, the Yue people also discovered the existence of Meng Sheng and the others, and the two sides had only been together for two miles.
The Yue nobles were secretly surprised, and then they realized that the Mo family was only afraid that they had already prepared this time, and there were many people in ambush here, obviously preparing to intercept him.
However, he stood on the chariot and watched for a moment, and hope burned in his heart again.
On the opposite side, Meng Sheng's infantry was closely arrayed, and some musketeers were also divided into columns in front of the formation, so the number appeared to be very small.
It seems that there are only a few hundred people, lined up in three small phalanxes, and there are not so many that the eagles feel that they dare not fight anymore and surrender directly.
If the river is crossed at this time, it will become a rout, and it is even more impossible to gather the remnants of the army. Besides, he is still riding in a car, and people can cross the river, so what about the carriage? Is it possible to let him go all the way back to Langya?
Although he thought that the righteous master on the opposite side could be defeated, the Yue people didn't think so, and when he saw that there was someone on the other side, he panicked.
Standing on the chariot, the owl shouted, "Tengcheng has been breached, and the ink will chase after it." Now if you want to survive, you can only defeat these people in front of you. ”
"They are not many in number, and if they cannot be broken, you will be taken captive and enslaved. Once defeated, we can retreat into the Ni country, and the Ni people will not dare to disobey us, they will provide us with food and wine. ”
"If you can win this battle, stay in Ni Country, slaughter sheep and eat! If you can't win, you will be enslaved. ”
Under the intimidation and temptation, the Yue people, who were already mourning soldiers, mustered up their last courage and re-arrayed, preparing to break through the righteous division blocking them on the opposite side with foot soldiers and courage.
The Yue people have few chariots and soldiers, and the elite is a foot soldier, and they are brave and warlike, with broken hair and tattoos, and they are mostly armed with short swords, wooden shields or short axes, etc., which are extremely fierce.
Years of war with Qi made the Tian clan sigh "Yue people, fierce tigers". In that year, Wu and Yue fought, and more than 1,000 people killed themselves in front of the battle to intimidate the Wu people, so that the battle was broken.
This time he had been forced to a desperate situation, and he thought that he might be captured as a slave, and the bravery of Yue Ren's heart finally overcame panic and fear.
After the formation was over, there were not many bows and arrows, let alone chariots, so they went straight forward, ready to break through directly.
The eagle held Ge, abandoned the car and marched, and as soon as the command was given, he began to move forward.
Meng Sheng, who was on the other side, looked at the loose Yue army formation, shook his head and said, "Shi Zeng said that the Chu people's formation will not be able to fight for a long time. From this point of view, the Vietnamese people are scattered and chaotic, and they cannot fight. However, it can be regarded as brave, and it is not easy to move forward in a panic. ”
Then he said to the people around him: "Since you have forced the Yue people here, then order the musketeers to shoot according to the previous training." Shoot sequentially and retreat into position. ”
After the order was given, the musketeers had already set up their brackets, and one hundred and fifty men were lined up in five rows, and the first row quickly retreated from both sides to the last row to reload, so that a total of two rounds could be fired, and finally all of them retreated into the protection of the spearmen.
Although these musketeers were nervous, the Yue people did not have many bows and arrows, and the distance was still far away, so they were not as nervous as they expected for the first battle.
The Yue people were marching extremely fast, and the few Moji musketeers in the front row thought to themselves, how could they fight if they were still two or three hundred steps away, and the formation was completely scattered?
Seeing that when they reached about one hundred and twenty steps, there was still no movement here, and the Yue people who rushed to the front couldn't bear the silence of the battlefield, and rushed towards the front with a few roars.
The eagle scolded in his heart, this is not the time to need courage, such an early impact, the formation is completely chaotic, and the person who impacts in front must drive the footsteps of the people behind.
If there is a chariot, of course it is possible to follow the impact at this time, but now it is just a group of foot soldiers, and the impact at such a distance is to find death, and when you rush to the front of the battle, you are no longer able to fight and panting.
Seeing that they had rushed to a distance of seventy or eighty paces, the musketeers in the first row finally heard the order, flattened the muskets that had been set up on the wooden forks earlier, and aimed them at the Yue people who were charging in front.
With a movement of his fingers, he pulled the trigger, and drove the snake hook wrapped around the victory, into the powder pool next to the setting sun.
A burst of white smoke, a burst of hands for a while, and didn't look at whether it hit the target, subconsciously shouldered a musket weighing more than ten catties, picked up a wooden fork and scattered it left and right, from left and right to the last row.
You can't pass by the musketeers in the back row, that's what was made clear during training, and the victory on your body is likely to ignite the gunpowder on others, and the gunpowder on your own body can also be ignited by someone else's arquebus, and there have been several cases in training where the gunpowder has been ignited and burned to death, or burned to death.
After the first platoon withdrew to the rear, he immediately forked the wooden fork and poured gunpowder into the muzzle of the gun from a small clay pot, suppressing the curiosity in his heart and not looking at the battle situation in front.
Moreover, it was the sky that had fallen and the tall ones on top, and there were five rows of musketeers in front of them, which not only blocked the view but also made the people in the back row more attentive.