Chapter 742: See the Red-Top Master Again!
Almost at the same time, I only heard the Tartars in Tai'an City suddenly shouting!
Another person came to report, "Commander Qiyu, the Tartars in the city suddenly moved, as if they were going to kill and attack our army on both sides with reinforcements!"
Qin Shuhuai immediately made a decision and said, "Order all the besieging departments to set up formations in place to meet the Tartars who come out of the city! Another order Jin Gang immediately take 10,000 people to the west of the city, and order Meng Wei to bring 10,000 soldiers and horses to the east of the city to intercept the opponent's ambush!"
"Obey!"
The herald flew as if he were flying, and soon the soldiers and horses of the large battalion immediately set off to the west and east of the city to support.
At present, the Wu Lie Department in the west of the besieging city has a total of 8,000 soldiers and horses, half of which are Demon Sect soldiers, and the Lai San'er Department in the east of the besieging city has a total of 9,000 soldiers and horses, half of which are Jianghe gang soldiers.
In this way, Qin Shuhuai invested a total of 18,000 people in the west of the city, a total of 19,000 people in the east of the city, plus 15,000 horse infantry in the hands of Zhang Xiao, who protected the artillery, and now he has thrown out 52,000 troops.
There are still 30,000 reserves in hand, of which 10,000 are still surrounded in the south of the city.
Qin Shuhuai's palms were wet, and he didn't have many hole cards, but he didn't know how many soldiers and horses the other party still had? If Huang Taiji mobilized the main force to fight him, then the more than 70,000 people in his hands were simply not enough.
But he comforted himself again, judging from the information from the White Lotus Sect, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to appear near Tai'an City, so many soldiers and horses appear together, and the blind can see it.
Let's say that Azig in the city has stood up excitedly at this moment.
This is the largest battle he has commanded so far, and his opponent is still the Qin Shuhuai who has changed the color of everyone in the Dajin Kingdom!
In this battle of Tai'an City, the Great Khan sent a total of 80,000 troops to himself! Considering that there were so many important places to defend along the way, this was already the limit!
It goes without saying how high the Great Khan expects of himself!
Such a large investment in Tai'an City was to inflict a heavy blow on Qin Shuhuai in the first line of defense, so as to completely hit the morale of the Ming army!
As long as this battle hurts the Ming army, they will not dare to take a step forward before the beginning of spring next year! As long as they survive until the beginning of spring next year, there will be a steady stream of allies to join in - you must know that many tribes on the grassland are still waiting and watching, this group of treacherous and cunning things will only come when they see that Dajin can defeat the Ming army!
An army of 80,000 against a 70,000-strong army, and in the case of a field battle, this made Azig feel that victory was in sight!
Hmph, Qin Shuhuai! This time, let's settle the new account and the old account together!
Estimating that the time was almost up, he said loudly to one person beside him, "Order, the elite in the city will rush out from the east, west, and north, and join forces with the ambush soldiers to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop!"
"Wow!"
In an instant, the gates of the west, east, and north of Tai'an City slowly opened, and a large number of wolf-like Tartar soldiers poured out from inside. They shouted and roared, and frantically overtook the Ming army!
In addition, on the artillery position, the decline of the Mongol cavalry has appeared, and now they have lost at least 2,000 cavalry, and seeing that they cannot finish off the opponent's artillery, they are ready to retreat.
And after Zhang Xiao found that there were a large number of enemy ambushes in the distance from the east and west, he immediately asked the artillery to stop bombarding the city gate and turned to shell the Tatar infantry!
The artillery immediately turned the muzzle of the gun, and the place where the super-Tartar soldiers were dense bombarded was blasted.
Because there are many and dense tartars, there is no need to worry about the accuracy problem at all!
Boom Boom!
A large crater can be smashed into the ground immediately after a shot, and at the same time, the Tartar will also fly out, the effect is excellent, and it is also extremely spectacular!
Zhang Xiao grinned, this thing is really easy to use!
At this moment, I saw more than a dozen groups of fast horses rushing not far away, and the people on the fast horses were all dressed in white and wearing white hats, and the hats on the heads of three of them were still red.
Zhang Xiao was taken aback, isn't that the legendary Jingwei of the Western Regions?
Without waiting for him to speak, the Six Apostles of the Demon Sect beside him snorted coldly, "Hmph, it turned out to be the Western Regions Jingwei, I didn't expect them to die yet!
The three apostles said in a cold voice, "Those three red-capped people are also there, very good!"
Qin Shuhuai naturally equipped Zhang Xiao with masters, and they were the three apostles of the Demon Sect, the six apostles, Shen Xi, and the three Dharma Protector Elders of the Kongtong faction.
The dozen or so elite guards of the Western Regions were obviously coming for the artillery, only to see them jump up after they approached on horseback, and pounced on the artillery in the heavy defense like falcons!
Fifteen red-coated cannons, a total of more than sixty gunners, these people are all treasures! Without them, red-coated cannons are iron lumps!
Without waiting for Zhang Xiao to speak, the Three Apostles and the others immediately went to intercept them!
But it was still a little late, and in an instant, those Western Regions Jingwei killed more than a dozen gunners!
The three apostles and others were not to be outdone, persimmons looked for soft pinching, they first left the three red-topped masters alone, and killed the other Western Regions Jingwei.
Zhang Xiao was not stupid, and immediately mobilized good men to help, and at the same time organized the gunners to retreat!
Seeing this, the Mongol cavalry on the periphery gave up retreating, and they chose to continue to fight with the Ming army to create chaos, trying to wait for the masters inside to finish killing the artillery before retreating!
But undoubtedly, this will keep their casualties rising!
In terms of strength, the Ming army is bound to have an advantage now, so the dozen or so elite guards of the Western Regions who broke into the artillery position did not have any advantage, but were extremely dangerous under the siege of the Ming army.
But their task is only to kill the artillerymen!
In the blink of an eye, many artillery soldiers fell! Especially the three red-capped masters, because the Ming army masters ignored them first, and although there were many ordinary soldiers, it would be difficult to put too much pressure on them for a while and a half, so they were especially easy to kill, and in just a while, they each killed at least six or seven artillerymen!
But at the same time, the masters of the Ming army were not idle, and soon with the cooperation of the soldiers, they killed all the white-topped Jingwei of the Western Regions.
Now there are only three red-top masters left!
The three apostles, the six apostles and Shen Xi were all blood-red, and in the battle of Lanzhou City that day, the left protector Zhao Wuxian really died in the hands of these three people, how could they not revenge such a sea of blood?
And just as they were about to go up to ask for their lives, they saw the three of them laughing wildly, and then they performed light feats and left!
"Hahaha, if you want revenge, if you have the courage, follow it!"
One of them said in stiff Chinese.
The three apostles and the six apostles immediately exploded when they heard this, and they were about to follow the general on tiptoe, but they heard Shen Xi shouting, "Two apostles, don't be rash!"
After all, the two apostles were old rivers and lakes, and they immediately calmed down after Shen Xi's reminder.
The other party made it clear that he wanted to lure them to chase them, and if they really followed, they would be more than lucky! This Northern Expedition had just begun, and there was a chance to kill those three people, so why should they be in a hurry for a while?
When I thought about it, I stopped my steps!