Chapter Twenty-Three: The Division of Troops Against Encirclement and Suppression (Ask for Collection!) )
With the morale of hundreds of soldiers, the Haw Par Army will have a greater chance of surviving this crisis.
As soon as Wei Zheng stepped off the platform, several subordinates greeted him together.
Before Wei Zheng could speak, Wang Feng asked Wei Zheng: "General, now that the enemy situation is clear....how to fight, you can give an order..."
"Divide the troops...", under the gaze of several people at the same time, Wei Zheng replied in surprise.
"Divide the troops...", including Wang Feng, several people let out an exclamation with puzzled faces.
In the eyes of Wang Feng and others, in the face of the Tartar four-way attacking force, even if the battle was carried out in accordance with the combat policy that Wei Zheng had already formulated, 'it is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers', the Haw Par Army must concentrate all its forces in order to be able to destroy the fifty Tartars who came to the barracks to besiege them.
However, in front of him, Wei Zheng actually told him that the entire Tiger and Leopard Army had to divide the troops under the condition of limited troops...
Could it be that the general plans to swallow the two armies of the Tartars in one gulp, that is, a full hundred Tartars?
Just when some people began to secretly shock Wei Zheng's huge appetite in their hearts, Wei Zheng spoke.
Facing the surprised and puzzled eyes of everyone looking at him, he asked: "I want to ask you a question, if we attack the entire Tiger and Leopard Army, who will defend the barracks and who will attract the attention of the main Tartar army..."
Subsequently, regardless of whether everyone understood it or not, he directly ordered with a stern face: "The first pikeman team has two platoons, the first platoon of the second pike, and the longbow platoon, all of which remain in the barracks, under the unified command of Captain Wang Feng, and Captain Zhao Yun serves as the deputy to stick to the barracks..."
"The task I have given you is very simple, and it is very difficult. As long as one person is alive, the barracks must be in the hands of our Haw Par Army, and the main force of the Tartars will be pinned down around our barracks..."
"The remaining officers and men of the Haw Par Army, bring all the throwing guns that were made by the weapons factory overnight, and I will personally command them to fight on the outside line..."
"My mission is to camera annihilate the Tartar one or two roundabout troops. Then, detour back behind the main Tartar force, at the critical moment, attack the main Tartar force from the rear, and with your cooperation, flank the inside and outside, and severely damage the Tartar troops entering the mountain..."
Although the confidence on Wei Zheng's face has not changed from beginning to end, Wang Feng still raised his worries.
"General, isn't our appetite too big..."
"This battle plan may sound very reasonable, but if one of the links goes wrong, our Haw Par Army will fall into a dangerous situation from which we will never recover..."
Wei Zheng shook his head and asked, "In the current situation, do you have a better way?" ”
"Even if we concentrate all our forces and eat the Tartars all the way around the troops, our barracks will still be occupied by the Tartars. When the time comes, although our people will survive, there will be no food and grass to support us all to live. If this is the result, we might as well not fight this battle, just give up the food, and hide in the mountains to be savages. ”
Wang Feng nodded silently, and then said ruthlessly again.
"In that case, General, for your safety, and for the sake of your ability to kill and wound as many of their forces as possible behind the Tartars, I implore you to take another platoon of spears with you when you attack..."
"The terrain where our barracks are located is very dangerous, and if the Tartars want to capture the barracks, they can only attack from the front. Leave me two platoons of pikes, and a platoon of longbows will suffice......"
Wei Zheng waved his hand and said, "If there are only a few dozen Tartars attacking you, with the dangerous terrain here, these people you want can indeed block the Tartars attacking." However, you are now facing not dozens of Tartars, but hundreds of Tartars, and there are dozens of archers alone....so many enemies, why do you hold the barracks...."
"Alright, that's it...as for me, don't worry....don't forget the four hundred throwing guns I have just produced from the ordnance factory. With these 400 throwing guns in hand, if you use them well, there is absolutely no problem in destroying the two Tartar troops. ”
Seeing the firm expression gradually on Wei Zheng's face, Wang Feng could only close his mouth and accept the order.
The Tartars are worthy of being a hunter people who came out of the mountains, and in the face of the rugged mountain roads, they still gave up their horses and still marched vigorously into the depths of the dense forest, and the speed of their march did not slow down in any way because of the loss of their horses.
Fifty Tartars, with no strikers and no rearguards, were all huddled together and did not give the Haw Par Army any chance to sneak attack.
The purpose of the Tartars was achieved, and in the hour of entering the mountain, not only did the entire army not be attacked in any way, but even the shadow of the Han people was not seen.
Just when all the Tartars thought that they could follow the lì to the target and block the back of the Haw Par Army.
The rapidly moving troops suddenly stopped.
A soldier in armor rushed to the side of the swing tooth and reported breathlessly: "My lord, the road ahead is blocked by the Haw Par Army logs, and there are dozens of Haw Par Army defending ......"
"The Haw Par Army—" asked the Tooth Swinger with an incredulous expression.
Then, a trace of incomprehension appeared on the face of the swinging tooth lama, and said to himself: "Don't the tiger and leopard army know that in the field, our Manchurian warriors are invincible, do they have some conspiracy..."
"Let's go, go to the front and have a look..."The last sentence was said to the other tooth swinger next to him, that is, his deputy.
The picture that appeared in front of the two tooth swingers had a sudden sense of enlightenment.
Unlike the rugged mountain road I walked all the way, the mountain road in front of me suddenly became very wide, as if it had been built by man......
On this section of the mountain road, which is up to five meters wide, an obstacle made of various logs and bushes is like a line of defense, dividing this section of the mountain road in two.
Thirty Haw Par spearmen stood in three rows behind the defensive line, spears in hand, standing motionless with solemn expressions.
"Could it be that the Haw Par Army is holding us back with this line of defense in front of us...", a tooth-waddling speaker said with a mocking face.
At this moment, he completely forgot about the dozens of Manchurian Tartars who had died at the hands of the Tiger and Par Army.
Waving his teeth at his side, he was also the temporary commander-in-chief of the entire army, and shouted: "I only need twenty warriors to break through the defense line in front of me, please give me this opportunity to make meritorious contributions..."
After the Tartar commander's eyes quickly shot out two rays of light, he nodded and replied: "The Han people in front of us don't have archers, so the warriors can attack each other as much as they want.-..."
"I'll give you twenty warriors, and tell the Han people on the other side with their strength, who is the real warrior in the field....In addition, I will lead all the remaining warriors to help you fifty paces away from the defensive line, and order all the archers to provide you with long-range strike cover, and shoot the Han people behind the defensive line as much as possible..."
"Thank you, Lord for your support...", after revealing two fiery glances in his eyes, he said excitedly.
As he slowly approached the line with twenty Tartars, the remaining thirty men of the Tartars, including ten archers, all gathered together and followed closely behind the line.
Thirty Tartars, including ten archers, had just approached the line of defense fifty paces before they stopped.
Of course, stopping does not mean that these Tartars are indifferent to the upcoming battle in front of them.
Under the command of the Tartar Swing Tooth, ten archers quickly lined up in two rows. Very skillfully drew the feather arrows from the quiver, drew the bow with the arrows, and aimed at the defense line of the tiger and leopard army fifty paces away.
"Shoot the arrows," shouted the toothwielder...
As soon as the command sounded on the battlefield, ten arrows with tremendous strength burst out of the string and flew towards the spear formation of the Tiger and Par Army fifty paces away with a faint whistling sound of breaking through the air.
The Tartar's arrows were so precise that all ten arrows flew towards and behind the pikeman's obstacles.
If it weren't for the pikemen who had been ordered to defend before the battle: as soon as they saw the Tartar archers in action, they quickly crouched down and hid behind the line ...
It is certain that the ten arrows that whizzed by must have caused great casualties to the spear array.
None of the ten arrows hit the target, and the tooth waddler commanding the archers couldn't help but let out a rough curse.
"Bastards, cunning Han people..."
Then, a strange smile appeared on his face, and he continued to command the two rows of archers in front of him.
"Projectile....warriors, immediately throw at the Han people hiding behind the obstacles..."
"Obstacles can block arrows flying from the front, but they can't block arrows flying down from the sky......"
"Whoosh, whoosh..."Ten arrows flew out of the air with a whizzing sound that broke through the air, like a disemboweled mortar shell, and flew into the sky in a parabola.
Then, under the action of gravity, it stabbed towards the position of the spear formation at an increasing speed...