Chapter 839: Ao Bai Strains
In this attack, Wang Bo played neatly and neatly.
In less than half an hour, he took the defensive line held by 2,000 Tartars and destroyed more than 1,500 Tartars.
The reason why the results were not as great as in the first attack was because in the second attack, the Tartars were already aware of the tragic fate of the defenders on the front line.
So, throughout the battle, they reacted much faster......
The grenades thrown by the Haw Par Army exploded before they hit the ground, and when they saw the opportunity, they had already collapsed and began to flee backwards desperately......
Of course, although the gains of the Haw Par Army were much smaller, the casualties were also very small.
Because throughout the battle, it was the artillery who sang the leading role. The three hundred musketeers who really rushed to the front did not encounter a Tartar counterattack, and only lost a squad of musketeers after a full fight.
And the artillerymen, who were responsible for providing fire cover, lost more than 30 people because of two rounds of counterattacks from the Tartar red cannons.
However, even so, the losses of the Haw Par Army's attacking forces can be called negligible compared to the results of the battle......
Although Ao Bai believed that the battle to weaken the reinforcements of the Tiger and Leopard Army was divided equally among the three generals under his command.
However, in order to keep abreast of the situation on the battlefield, changes were constantly made to minimize troop losses.
Ao Bai remained at the forefront of the battlefield.
So, the battle that just ended, Ao Bai not only saw it, but also saw it very clearly.
Before the battle began, Ao Bai received a lot of news from his men who had fled back about the rapid loss of the first line of defense. But. Ao Bai, who is confident in his own arrangement. I don't believe the subordinates' descriptions of the entire battle.
In Aobai's opinion. Armed with red-coated cannons and muskets, the Houjin Army, even if it is no match for the Haw Par Army's attacking force, will inflict heavy casualties on the Haw Par Army's attacking force.
So, the thought in his mind was that the first line of defense had been breached in such a short period of time, and only inflicted negligible casualties on the Haw Par Army. It must be a few generals on the defensive first line of defense who underestimated the enemy, otherwise, a blocking battle would never have been fought like that.
However. In front of him, this battle that has just ended, which can be called dazzling, directly tells himself with the facts that all his doubts and disbeliefs are true......
Not only is it true, but the Tiger and Leopard Army he is facing is even stronger in terms of offensive ability than the defeated army said.
Therefore, as soon as the attack in front of him ended, Ao Bai, who had a gloomy face, knew that he had carefully planned this conspiracy. In the face of the strong strength of the Haw Par Army, it failed again......
After accepting this harsh reality. Ao Bai immediately thought of the 30,000 Houjin elites he still had on the entire reinforcement road.
According to the powerful offensive of the Haw Par Army on the battlefield, it is impossible for the 30,000 Houjin elite to cause too many casualties to the Haw Par Army.
Not only that, but these 30,000 Houjin elites may also be directly wiped out here in the next battle......
As a qualified commander, Ao Bai certainly didn't want to see the elite of the 30,000 Houjin, just die here in such a meaningless battle.
So, Ao Bai, who had a gloomy face, made a decision after only a short period of contemplation.
We must immediately change the tactics in front of us, and we must keep the elite of the 30,000 Houjin......
This decision had just been formed in Ao Bai's heart, and an idea immediately came to Ao Bai's mind!
Give up the idea of continuing to weaken the reinforcements of the Tiger and Leopard Army through reinforcements, concentrate troops and elites, and use the shortest time to eat the 2,000 elite of the Tiger and Leopard Army that have been surrounded by themselves......
It is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers.
In this way, although the Haw Par Army cannot be forced to retreat. However, at least it can give the Haw Par Army a blow, make the Haw Par Army not so arrogant, boost the morale of the tens of thousands of post-Jin troops, and buy time for the next adjustment of the tens of thousands of post-Jin troops.
Doing it when you think of it is a necessary quality to be a leading general.
So, Ao Bai didn't think about it, and directly faced his subordinates, and ordered with a serious face: "General Sakhaqi, now you still have three thousand musketeers, three thousand cavalry, and thirty red-clothed cannons in your hands...... I was going to ask you to block the Haw Par Army reinforcements along the entire reinforcement road, dragging the Haw Par Army reinforcements on this road for at least two hours......"
"The others, immediately gather troops, bring all the red-coated cannons, and under the personal command of General Ben, destroy the elite ...... of the two thousand Tiger and Leopard Army that have been surrounded by us."
"All soldiers, start moving now......"
The elite of the 30,000-year Jin Army couldn't stop the clever attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army, let alone the 6,000-foot cavalry in their hands.
Therefore, Sax Haqi, who received the blocking task, subconsciously wanted to refuse.
However, when he saw the strong murderous aura slowly emanating from Ao Bai's body, he could only express it with a face full of grievances, and swallowed back the rejection that he had already said to his lips.
After some thought, Sakh Haqi finally decided to scatter all the limited 6,000 elites and disperse them to more than a dozen lines of defense that other troops had just abandoned.
In his thinking, there was no need for these soldiers to hold the line. As long as they can use these lines to stop the reinforcements of the Haw Par Army, it will be very time-delayed to set up artillery positions and launch an attack.
What Sakhaqi didn't expect was that his idea really played a big role.
In order to reduce the casualties of the troops as much as possible, as long as the Tartars were deployed behind the defensive line. The Hawpanthers would stop, set up artillery, and strike with unprecedented artillery fire to destroy and occupy the Tartar lines.
As a result, the more than 10,000 reinforcements commanded by Wang Feng finally reached the last five miles from the battlefield, and two hours had passed.
And at this speed of attack, it will take at least an hour for Wang Feng to rush to the battlefield.
However, what Wang Feng didn't expect was that just when he tried his best to control the casualties and planned to give the Tartars reinforcements a devastating blow.
The 2,000 soldiers of the 2nd Division and the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division, which had been divided and surrounded by the Tartars, were experiencing a very tragic battle that they had formed as before.
More than 150 red-coated cannons, under Ao Bai's orders, desperately fired flowering shells at the positions of the 2nd Division and 1st Regiment, as if they didn't need money.
It can be said that if the regiment commander had not ordered all the officers and men of the regiment to strengthen the position more than two hours before the battle, and to build a large number of trenches and anti-artillery holes on the position to avoid artillery fire, the flowering shells that exploded due to the continuous fall of light sources on the position, would have been enough for a regiment of 2,000 soldiers. (To be continued......)