Chapter 300: A Little Two
The unexpected appearance of the cavalry of the Jin army was a great threat to the assault battalion of the Song army, which had just gained a foothold, and also disrupted the battle plan, and the assault battalion quickly formed a horizontal formation in the breach, with the machine gun position as the support, and the platoon gun fire as the supplement, forming a dense firepower network to block the Jin army's attack. But the assault battalion had no defensive depth, and behind it was a high earthen wall, which was unsafe to defend and had no fortifications.
And at such a close distance, even if the war horse cannot charge at full speed, it is also a great threat to the infantry equipped with firearms, once the fire stops, the war horse will come to the front of them, squeezing them, unless you exit the breakthrough, otherwise there is no room for maneuver. In the face of the enemy cavalry who pounced on them regardless of casualties, the assault battalion used their weapons to the extreme, but it was still difficult to resist the approach of the enemy cavalry, giving them the feeling of shooting at the enemy's head.
The enemy army quickly assembled under the cover of the cavalry attack and pounced on the breakthrough, and the soldiers of the Jin army understood that without the cover of this earthen fortress, they were not the opponent of the Song army at all, and this wall was their talisman, and if they did not expel the Song army from the road and plug the gap, they would be a dead end. Therefore, the counterattack of the Jin army was extremely fierce and tenacious, and it could be called a succession.
The situation became more and more critical, and from time to time soldiers in the array fell to the ground with arrows, and the firepower also weakened. Bordan had to shrink his flanks and concentrate his forces on the breakthrough to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, even to the death. At the moment of life and death, the second echelon rushed up, and they quickly rushed over the earthen ramparts into the earth city to join the battle through the newly opened gap of the sappers, the cloud ladder erected, and even the human ladder built with flesh and blood.
The 3rd Brigade Artillery Battalion, which had been out of the city before the war, also joined the battle at this moment. They used rapid-fire artillery to deal with frontal attacking enemy troops, and mortar guns to fire at the trebuchets hidden behind the earthen ramparts, giving them fire suppression. After a fierce battle. The attacking troops of the Third Brigade stabilized the breakthrough, but the Jin army did not break down, but retreated to the second line of defense, using the cover of low walls and earthen ramparts to resist the attack of the Song army, and the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while......
"What are the 1st and 2nd brigades waiting for, why haven't they started attacking yet!" The northwest corner is in full swing. The northeast corner, which is the main direction of attack, did not move, and Bao Gang jumped straight to his feet.
"Let's go up with the Fourth Brigade!" Sun Hong, commander of the Fourth Brigade, said that now the four commanders of the Third Brigade have all gone up. However, under the stubborn resistance of the enemy, it was difficult to break through for a while.
"It's useless for you to go up, you can only increase the casualties, and now all the stone throwers in Tucheng are shooting at our side. Dense arrows. You can't swing it in a palm-sized place, so you can use them as a target! Bao Gang said angrily.
"What the hell are the two of them doing, do you want to see our jokes?" Sun Hong and Bao Gang looked at each other in confusion, unable to figure out what Dou Jun and the others were waiting for, and why they didn't act for anything.
"Regardless of them, I will take people back to the west to attack the flank of the Jin army, and our two brigades will flank them!" Sun Hong observed for a while and said.
He saw that all the enemy troops in the city were pressed to the northwest corner, and the three brigades were struggling to fight. Progress was slow, and he saw that the enemy forces in the southwest were weak. And the sky is about to dawn, and now we can take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy army being attracted by the third brigade to take advantage of the darkest trace of darkness to covertly engage the enemy, and then open up an attack surface. Sun Hong ordered the 1st Battalion of the 4th Brigade to lead the troops around the southwest corner of Tucheng, use the 2nd Battalion to make a feint from the west to attract the enemy, and use the 3rd Battalion to make a hidden detour from the enemy's flank, preparing to launch a fierce charge against the enemy.
An hour after the battle began, the sky was also white, and the northeast of Tucheng, which had been silent, the sound of guns and cannons rang out like a torrential rain, and the 1st and 2nd Brigades finally launched an attack on the enemy. This sudden blow caused the Jin army Tucheng to be in a state of confusion by the enemy, and they hurriedly responded, but they were not in a hurry. The 1st Brigade quickly broke through the Jin army's defensive line, entered the city from the northeast, and advanced deep into the defending enemy's defenses. At this time, the 4th Brigade, which was attacking from the west, also took advantage of the enemy's confusion to launch a strong attack, breaking through the enemy's flank defense line in one fell swoop and penetrating directly into the center of the city. After the four brigades of the Song Army launched an attack one after another, they immediately formed a situation of east-west advance, so that the defending enemy was in the middle of a flank attack.
But why did the 1st and 2nd Brigades stay unmoved just now? It turned out that this was decided by Zhao Yong. He deliberately let the attack of the 3rd Brigade confuse the enemy, so that the enemy would throw all his troops and weapons into the north, and when the enemy found out that the real main attack was in the east, it would be too late to adjust the manpower. This is what the emperor talked about as the tactic of 'one point and two sides', the so-called one point, that is, the concentration of superior forces in the main direction, and the so-called two-sided, that is, the application of the assault team to the enemy's flank, and the application of the pincer team to the enemy's front, so that the enemy cannot take care of each other.
The 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Lion General quickly achieved a breakthrough and quickly advanced in depth, and Zhao Yong ordered them to intensify their attacks to disperse the enemy's forces and firepower and support the 3rd and 4th Brigades in the west. Soon, they also sent the signal of a successful breakthrough, and the battle immediately turned to an offensive against the enemy's core offensive, and the two sides began to fight inch by inch. At this time, the enemy's trebuchets were basically destroyed, and even the surviving ones were completely useless in close combat, and the artillery of the Song army was difficult to play an advantage in the face of the terrain and muddy water, bunkers made of logs, and low walls transformed by the Jin army, and it was easy to injure their own people by mistake.
So the whole battlefield became a close combat, the Song army all attacked on foot, each group was divided into two battle groups, two people with shields and short guns in front of the cover, the middle two with bead guns to provide cover for them, the last two people as the rearguard, and at the same time when encountering complex terrain to throw grenades to kill and injure the hidden enemy. Each battle group fights at distances and intervals to reduce the enemy's casualties under the dense rain of arrows.
In this close-range melee, the cold weapons of the Jin army were equally difficult to defeat the muskets in the hands of the Song army, and they were driven out from behind the low wall borrowed for stealth, and were driven by the Song army to run around, one by one falling under the muzzle of the gun. In the meantime, the Jin army camp also sent troops out of the camp to reinforce, and the leopards cruising outside the camp will quickly attack, outflanking from the left flank, and the Jin army does not dare to fight again, and retreats to the camp to go to defense.
Seeing that there were reinforcements, the Jin army in Tucheng also launched a counterattack, but was quickly defeated. The Song army, which broke into the first core position, carried out a brave assault, and divided the troops into multiple ways, cutting the enemy into several pieces, disrupting the enemy's entire defense system, and constantly compressing the enemy's defense line inward, gradually eliminating the recalcitrant enemy. The fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted for more than an hour, and under the effective attack tactics of the Song army and the blow of superior forces, the Jin army guarding Tucheng was finally annihilated, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Jin army camp......
Seeing that Tucheng was captured by the Song army, more than 10,000 soldiers were annihilated and could not do anything, and he was anxious and regretful in his heart. The urgency was that the camp was surrounded by the Song army, and it was in danger after losing the screen of Tucheng; What I regret is why I was blinded by lard, and let a few bowls of Wushu ecstasy soup be dizzy, so I promised him to stay in the camp?
"Deputy marshal, the Song army has already pushed the artillery up, what should I do? Let's break through! Just when Da Tart Bu was upset, his pro-army commander Su Lide hurriedly entered the tent and said, this is the one who escaped death by attacking the Song army fleet with a fireboat that day, and became a hero in the Jin army, and was promoted to the commander of his own pro-army by Da Tart Buye, which is equivalent to a thousand-commander.
"What else do you have to think of in this situation?" The big tart Buno said with a sigh.
"Deputy marshal, the Song army's attack is imminent, then you have to have an idea!" Sulid said.
"I wanted to take everyone to fight for some wealth, but the result was that I hurt you and the clansmen!" Da Tart Buye smiled bitterly, he knew very well in his heart that the Jurchens were not the opponents of the Song Army, the Taishi was scared away, and he was not the opponent of the Song Army, and the result of the fight was death.
"Deputy marshal, I once heard from the pro-soldiers of the supervising army that the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, Zhao Er, arrived in Pingzhou to personally conquer, and the emperor issued several holy decrees to recruit the Taishi to return to the army, and the Taishi is probably ......," Su Lide whispered.
"The deputy marshal of the fart is a substitute for the dead!" When the big tart Buye heard it, he got angry and said hatefully.
The matter became clear at once, Wushu took the front army and said that he was going to explore the road, but he didn't return, and the prison army said that the Taishi was besieged in Xichuan and he wanted to lead the army to meet it, and brought reinforcements back to capture Xijing, so that he could stay in the camp. According to the analysis of the current situation, they must have discussed the withdrawal of the army a long time ago, but they were afraid that the Song army would pursue, so they let themselves pretend to be a large army to attract the attention of the Song army in Xijing and use them as cannon fodder. The Jurchens did not regard him as their own from the beginning to the end, and the reward and wish were just coaxing themselves to work for them, but such an important matter has been hidden from themselves, and they still want to be loyal to Dajin!
"Deputy Marshal, no matter what you want, our Bohai people will listen to you!" Su Lide leaned in and said.
"Oh, what do you think?" Da Tart Buye heard the sound outside the strings, and turned his face and asked.
"Hehe, the deputy marshal transferred the rest of the Jurchens to Tucheng to defend, leaving our people alone to defend the camp, is it also guarding against them?" Su Li Demei said with a smile, but there was a hint of disdain on the corner of his mouth, "The Jin Kingdom has been defeated repeatedly after Zhao Er ascended the throne, and the civil strife continues, and the situation is getting worse day by day, and now I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the attack of the Southern Dynasty." We, the Bohai people, have been fighting for many years before and after the Jurchens saddle their horses, but we have achieved such a result, why don't we surrender to the Southern Dynasty! ”
"Can the Southern Dynasty tolerate us?" Da Tart Buye does have the idea of preserving his strength, so as Su Lide said, after he took over, he transferred the remaining Jurchen 10,000 troops to Tucheng to defend, and he is now facing two ways to die or surrender.
"Deputy marshal, Goryeo once betrayed the Great Song Dynasty, but if something happened, Zhao Er did not stand idly by, but sent troops to help regardless of his previous suspicions, at least more benevolent than the Jurchens, it can be seen that Zhao Er is still tolerant and will not embarrass us!" Sulid said...... (To be continued......)