Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 139

Facing the siege of more than 2 cavalry, the teenagers defending the city held their weapons tightly.

The squad leaders walked back and forth and patted the shoulders of the recruits one by one to relax them. Some squad leaders kept telling dirty jokes, saying that if the battle was over, they would take their whole squad to find a Tartar woman to have sex.

The explosion-proof wall more than two meters high can't stop the enemy's prying eyes. After observing the entire Shuofang City, Taiji of the Wushen Department determined that there were not many cannons in Shuofang City, and the Han army guarding the city seemed to be of all ages. It is relatively small, and the defenders of the city can only see less than 1 people, which is less than half of them.

Then he decided to lead the cavalry to ride and shoot around Shuofang City. It took less than a stick of incense for 2 cavalry to run around Shuofang City. Those who are good at riding and archery can shoot ten arrows casually.

Under the cover of such a rain of arrows, presumably this small Shuofang City will be destroyed without attack.

Full of confidence, Taiji of the Uzbekistan Ministry began to order:
The cavalry of all the tribes set off one by one, riding and shooting around Shuofang City, and the cavalry of his headquarters set off last. All the cavalry must shoot at least ten arrows during the one week around the city. After three weeks around the city, all the arrows in the quiver must be shot. Those who have not finished shooting arrows will be beheaded.

He also promised that after the elimination of these Han troops, all the tribes would carve up the pastures that originally belonged to the Wanhu tribe of Ordos.

Although they let the people of these small tribes rush to the front, looking at the low city walls also gave them a burst of self-confidence, thinking that they could easily take Shuofang City.

Standing on a high platform in the center of Shuofang City, Boren watched the enemy's movement with binoculars. In fact, the Tartar cavalry was within the range of the rockets, but Boren didn't want to scare the Tartars away, so he didn't let the rockets launch.

When Bo Ren saw the formation listed by the Tartars, he understood.What kind of tactics the Tartars want to adopt? When everyone discusses tactics on weekdays, they realize that although the blast wall is convenient, it is too short. The enemy can observe the layout of the camp from a high place.

The defensive effect of bows and arrows is also not good. If the enemy rides around the explosion-proof wall, it will indeed cause a lot of casualties.Some good equestrians can indeed jump over the explosion-proof wall and jump into the camp.

They also discussed related defense methods. One is to use cannons to disperse the enemy, so that the enemy cannot gather and form cavalry shooting, and the other is to set up multiple explosion-proof walls in the camp.

The Tartars wanted to insert obliquely from the northwest corner. When they reached a place about 60 meters away from the blast-proof wall, they turned to the south and paralleled with the blast-proof wall. After paralleling the blast-proof wall, they could start projecting into the city.

Boren's response was to dismount the cavalry regiment to reinforce the western city wall, and use continuous firepower to kill and injure the Tartars in large numbers. At the same time, the artillery also fired shotgun shells, so that the Tartars could feel the power of firearms.

The Tatars who have gathered in the southeast of Shuofang City.Before Taiji of the Uzbekistan Ministry issued an order, he launched an attack impatiently.

When the cavalry led by the Tartars turned to the north and were about to draw their bows and set their arrows, they saw puffs of white smoke suddenly rising from the low wall, and then they felt that they were knocked off their horses by something.

The five-jin bronze cannon that had already leveled its muzzle also fired shotgun shells at the Tartars' follow-up team.The Tartar cavalry who hadn't had time to turn their horses' heads were swept to the ground one by one like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

The ten-jin bronze cannon fired solid bullets at the Tartar team that hadn't set off yet.The executed shells kept jumping up on the land that had not yet thawed, and people and horses were smashed along the way.Twelve blood alleys were left behind.

After the soldiers on the explosion-proof wall finished shooting a round, they immediately took over the loaded flintlocks and continued to shoot, so that even if the Tartar cavalry escaped the cannonballs, they could not escape the volley of flintlocks.

Before firing a single arrow, they received such a horrific blow. The tartars who hadn't set off immediately collapsed and fled in all directions.

After the Tartars discussed the range of the flintlock guns, Boren ordered the shooting to stop. When the smoke cleared, the teenagers saw the shattered Tartars in front of the blast wall. They did not vomit or get nervous, but cheered happily.He kept shouting Long Live the Legislative Army.

Taiji, who was watching the battle from a distance, was also stunned by the rapid firepower of the Legislative Army and the tragic battlefield. He was speechless for a long time, until his subordinates reminded him to gather the troops quickly, or he would run away.

Only then did Taiji of the Uzbekistan react and asked his own troops to gather up the scattered cavalry. In fact, this wave of firepower output killed hundreds of Tartars, but the sudden fire attack blinded the Tartars all at once. up.

After spending an hour and killing the leaders of several small tribes, they finally gathered the team.

But how to continue the attack made Taiji of the Wushen Department face difficulties again, and he couldn't just work here, the grass was about to grow, and he had to let his men go down to graze and let the cattle and sheep graze.

Shuofang City must be captured as soon as possible. At this time, the men proposed to let the people of that small tribe cover the city with soil and ask them to fill in a slope to the blast-proof wall, so that the cavalry from their headquarters can rush directly into Sufang City. The ammunition of the Han army.

When the slope is filled, the Han army's guns will no longer be usable. At this time, they still use the experience of fighting the Ming army decades ago to view the Legislative Army.

Taiji of the Wushen Department first summoned the leaders of the small tribe and announced that they would cover the earth and attack the city. The leaders of the small tribe did not dare to object, so they could only obediently follow the request of Taiji of the Wushen Department and let their men cover the earth and attack the city.

Taiji of the Uzbekistan Department also used its troops as a supervisory team, requiring each cavalry to dig two bags of soil and throw them into the three selected trenches, and they could not stop until a slope was filled.

At this time, Boren was thinking about how to wipe out this enemy army. After all, he had a small force, and if he fought with the cavalry regiment on the other side of the river, at most he would defeat the opponent, and he could not keep all the Tartars here.

In the end, Boren decided to wait until night, first startle their horses away with rockets, and then unite with the cavalry regiment on the other side of the river to wipe out the Tartars of the Wushen Department in one go.

The Tartars were very experienced in attacking the city with soil, and they didn't rush up in a hive, but sent troops to first lure the Han army on the blast-proof wall to shoot, and then took advantage of the time to reload the bombs to throw earth bags at the approach.

It's a pity that the reloading of the flintlock is faster than the bird's gun, and the Han army on the wall is shooting by one person, and three people are reloading him. The method of starting the tartar can still work, and the latter is not close to the explosion-proof wall for 30 meters. No guns were fired anywhere.

Just like this for an entire afternoon, the Tartars did not fill a single trench.Only the corpses piled up in front of the trench were left. At this time, the morale of the Tartars was low. Even if the cavalry of the headquarter of the Wushen Department killed more than a dozen cavalry of small tribes, no one was willing to step forward and die.

At this time, Taiji of the Uzbekistan Department already wanted to retreat, but he was unwilling to retreat like this.In the past, the Ming army came and left after burning the pastures, but now the Han army has been building settlements, and they don't want to leave after they come.

If they retreat at this point, these Han troops will inevitably attack the herdsmen even more rampantly.In the dilemma, I thought of the fact that someone proposed to ask for help from the Dalat Wanhu Department before departure. This Han army wiped out his Wushen Department, and his Dalat Wanhu Department was next.

After figuring it out, he immediately sent people to Dalat Wanhu Department to ask for help, and stopped attacking the city, and began to set up camp to guard Shuofang City. The Han army would not dare to come out if there were few cavalry.Wait for the Dalath Wanhu Department to come and attack the city together.

After dark, Boren first sent people to contact the cavalry ambushing on the other side of the river, and asked them to launch an attack from behind the enemy camp on time at two o'clock in the morning, and then let the troops in Shuofang City take a good rest and prepare to raid the enemy camp in the middle of the night.
At one o'clock in the morning, the rocket launch site was set up. After reducing the charge of two hundred rockets, they aimed at the Tartar camp four miles away. The ten-jin bronze cannon also adjusted the shooting angle to the maximum and loaded the live ammunition. .

Then the infantry brigade and the left-behind cavalry regiment quietly left the city from the north and south respectively under the cover of the night. The infantry brigade was responsible for preventing the Tartars from fleeing to the north, and stopped only two miles away from the Tartar camp.The cavalry regiment went around to the south of the enemy's camp.

And the four cavalry regiments that have been ambushing outside have also moved behind the enemy's camp, waiting for the signal to attack.

Wushenbu Taiji knew that Ordos Wanhubu was defeated by a surprise attack before dawn, so he was naturally prepared for the surprise attack from Shuofang City. He also hoped that Shuofang City would come out of the blast-proof wall and attack him.

In this way, he can wipe out the defenders outside the city, and he still has this confidence in his own cavalry.

Therefore, the camp of the Wushen Department seemed to be lax and there were not many people standing guard. In fact, the cavalry in the entire camp slept with the horses, their armor was still on, and they were ready to stand up and fight at any time.

However, he didn't know that what he was about to face was a dimensionality reduction blow. Even if some Ordos nobles who escaped told him that the Han army had a very powerful rocket, he didn't care and thought it was just the frightened Ordos nobles. nonsense.

At most, it was a grenade commonly used by the Ming army. He had seen that thing before, but it was so loud that it couldn't kill people, but at most it could turn people into black charcoal.

At two o'clock in the morning, the artillery in the city fired rockets on time as required, and the shells of the ten-jin artillery roared out.

As written in Xin Qiji's poem: Dongfeng puts flowers and thousands of trees at night, and blows them down, and stars are like rain.

At the same time, the infantry brigade also stepped forward, lined up neatly with the beat of the drums, and attacked the Tartar camp.

The whistling sound of the rockets woke up the Tartar camp. When they walked out of the camp, the first thing they saw was the falling stars, followed by the sound of explosions one after another.

The cavalry from the other two directions also launched an attack at the same time. First, they were blown up by the rocket bombs, and the entire Tartar camp was thrown into chaos. Then the Han cavalry came in,
Because the Tartars stayed with the horses when they slept, some of the Tartars who reacted had already mounted the horses, and when they wanted to escape, they ran head-on into the attacking cavalry.

Knocked off his horse by the cavalry of the Legislative Army, Zhang Zongxian taught his disciples to put firepower first. His disciples all carried more than one flintlock on the battlefield, and some ruthless men directly carried six short blunderbuss.The cavalry that directly assembled the Tartars collapsed.

The Legislative Army cavalry who entered the Tartar camp would kill anyone they saw, and if the Tartar cavalry gathered, they would greet them with short guns.Seeing that there were no cavalry rushing in from the north, some Tartars ran to the north, and bumped into the infantry brigade outside the camp.

Knocked off their horses by a volley of guns, the infantry brigade with bayonets walked to the Tartar camp and fired a volley of guns at the Tartars who were driven over by the cavalry.

The desperate Tartars surrendered one after another, and the officer ordered the shooting to stop.

The battle didn't end until dawn, when 5000 Tartars were killed and more than [-] people were killed, and the rest surrendered to the Legislative Army.

The teenagers excitedly tied up the Tartars and escorted them all to Shuofang City.

Boren selected from the captives the Han Chinese who had escaped from the side wall and joined the Tartars for their own reasons, and asked them to lead the way to the winter camp of the Wushen tribe.

Boren wants to completely wipe out the Uzbek Department.After the battle, the cavalrymen who just rested for a whole morning embarked on the journey here.

Three days later, the completely unprepared Wushen tribe ushered in a catastrophe. After killing all the men who were higher than the wheels, they drove the captive livestock back to Shuofang City.

The Wanhu tribe, who had already set off to reinforce the Dalat Wanhu tribe, immediately returned to the tribal camp after learning that the Wushen tribe had perished.Quickly move all peripheral tribes to the north of the Yellow River.

So far, there are no tribes with more than a thousand people on the Hetao. The remaining small tribes either fled to the north of the Yellow River or surrendered to the Taiping.

In this battle, the Legislative Army killed and injured less than a thousand people, beheaded 5, captured 20 Tartar men, more than [-] Tartar women, one million livestock, and [-] horses.In addition, more than [-] small tribes were conquered.

Zhang Zongxian was very happy when he learned that Boren had achieved such a great victory here, and also lamented the decline of the Tartars. No wonder the former Jiannu cleaned up the Tumote tribe so easily.

Immediately, in the name of the legislative school, the five regiments of the cavalry brigade were awarded collective and personal second-class merit, and each was rewarded with ten taels of silver.

These five cavalry regiments made great contributions. Zhang Zongxian decided to use these five cavalry regiments as the backbone and directly supplement the newly formed twelve new regiments to form five cavalry brigades.

In this way, veterans can quickly form combat effectiveness with recruits.

Boren also asked how to deal with the surrendered Tartar tribes.Many tribes surrendered this time, adding up to almost 2 people. Zhang Zongxian decided to re-divide the grasslands for the surrendered tribes, allowing them to change from nomadic to grazing.

It's just that before that, they have to be broken up again, the original tribal order must be dismantled, and they must be registered with the same name and different clothes.

After completing these tasks, Zhang Zongxian will distribute cattle, sheep and horses to them, and teach them how to store fodder in silage. In the future, he will also provide them with corn stalks and stems and leaves of potatoes as silage fodder, so that they no longer have to run around to graze.

After all, there are so many cattle and sheep that have been seized and someone needs to graze them. Most importantly, according to Zhang Zongxian's plan, there will be no more Tartars on the grassland in the future.

Moreover, these tribes can be scattered along the Yellow River to serve as an early warning for Shuofang City.

In order to accomplish this, Zhang Zongxian asked Wang Guofu to lead twenty inner disciples to Shuofang City to assist Boren in reforming the surrendered Tartars.

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