The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 254 The military prestige our country has accumulated over decades will be gone!
"Nearly half of a thousand troops and horses were lost, but we couldn't stop the three hundred Yungu thieves. What the hell is going on!" Liang Huonv's beard straightened with anger in Xiang Jun's main formation, and she asked loudly about the collapse. Xiao Kuo came out of battle.

"Commander, the firearms of the Yungu thieves are really too fierce. Although there are only two or three hundred of them, each of them has several muskets. Our soldiers rushed over as if they were against a stinging wall. How many of them are there?" No one can rush in." Xiao Kuo expressed his helplessness very aggrievedly. Facing the firepower network of the Yungu Army, the numerical advantage was useless.

"You are really stupid. Since rushing into the formation doesn't work, just use arrows to shoot. There are only a few hundred of them. You can kill one of them with ten arrows." Seeing Xiao Kuo's stubborn mouth, Liang Huo The woman wanted to give him a big mouth.If you can't get in by force, a bow and arrow can do it, right?It’s not like Xiang Jun doesn’t have long-range attack methods!

"Bows and arrows are even worse. If they are far away, the arrows will not be effective. The Yungu thieves are all wearing armor, so they cannot be hurt! If they are close, their muskets are harder than our arrows, and our people will be hurt first. Even if it is Without hurting people, horses can also use guns, and with their thunderbolts that explode when thrown over, there is nothing we can do." Xiao Kuo said his summary of the battle in despair. He really has no temper.It was so desperate to see that the other party was just that little person, but he was helpless.

"According to you, there is nothing we can do about it? At this rate, the Yungu thieves can dominate the battlefield with just the few soldiers crossing the river!" Liang Huonv said, her heart suddenly twitching. stand up.Could it be true, as he said, that the Yungu Army could change the situation of the war with just these troops?This is too scary.

"It's not that there is no way. To deal with the Yungu thieves, we can only use firearms to make firearms. Even if our firearms are not as good as theirs, they can always suppress and support them. After all, they have few soldiers and occupy a small battlefield. , it can be worn down even if you grind it slowly.”

"That's it. It's impossible to stop them from crossing the river now. Let's fight again when the main force is crossing the river. Our artillery array has been set up. Let me see how capable they are." Liang did not stop the Yungu Army's infantry from crossing. The living girl could only put her hope in blocking his brigade from crossing the river later.

On the other side of the Yellow River, Song Yingkui saw that the cavalry battalion had begun to move towards the main ferry, so he ordered the artillery brigade that had been prepared to get on rafts to cross the river.As long as the Lancer Battalion and the Artillery Battalion can cross the river, it won't be a problem for the whole group to cross the river.

"When we get to the other side, we must build fortifications first. Judging from Xiang Jun's appearance, they will probably fight a big battle after they cross the river. After all, they have artillery, and they can't do it without fortifications." When the artillery brigade was about to cross the river, Song Yingkui gave them a few words of advice.Most of Xiang Jun's soldiers and horses left behind in Pingchuan camp have gathered near Jingyuan Fort. Under this situation, they will not even say anything unless they have a big battle!
A fierce battle soon broke out, and Xiang Jun's artillery finally came into use. Their artillery array was arranged reasonably, and the range could just cover the beachhead of the main ferry.

This arrangement indeed caused some trouble for the Yungu Army. At the beginning, it was difficult for both the Lancer Battalion that had crossed the river and the artillery brigade in the water to gain a foothold on the beach.

But soon, several rafts carrying artillery came to the shore. After setting up the artillery array, the opponent's guns were no longer advantageous, and they were forced back after a while.

Seeing that the opponent's artillery array was far away from the beach, Song Yingkui ordered the remaining troops to start crossing the river.It is not an easy task for a war horse to cross a river on a raft.One raft could not carry horses at all, so two rafts could only be put together, with wooden planks laid on top, and the horses could lie on the wooden planks to transport them across.

During the transportation process, the soldiers in charge of the horses should stay with the horses and always comfort the horses so that they do not make excessive movements.It took most of a day to transport about [-] horses.This time, the Yungu Army brought over a thousand war horses, and it would take at least two days for them all to cross the river.

"Starting tomorrow, we will continue to repair the fortifications at the ferry. We must repair the fortifications a little better. This will be our main logistics base for the northward campaign. We must not make any mistakes." It was Ye and Song Yingkui who arranged the main work for the soldiers in the next few days.Before the soldiers and horses move forward with food and fodder, it is still necessary to consider carefully and set up a semi-permanent logistics position at the ferry.In the following battle, the ferry will be the general support point, and the army will have to return here for supplies after wandering for a few days.Otherwise, the military supplies shipped here will not be able to move with the army.

"Commander, we'd better take down the Jingyuan Fort in front. It's a city there, and it's better than building it in the freezing cold." When Wei Dadao saw that Song Yingkui wanted to build fortifications at the ferry, he immediately advised him. stand up.Not far from the ferry is a fortress built during the Dazheng period to defend against enemies. Since there are ready-made ones available, why bother with that?

"Capture Jingyuan Fort? You can consider it, but it depends on the development of the war. If Xiang Jun wants to start a decisive battle with us here, the beachhead position will be extremely important. Furthermore, the distance between Jingyuan Fort and the ferry is still a bit far If there is no defense at the ferry, our army's retreat will be unstable." Jingyuan Fort is indeed available, but the importance of the ferry cannot be ignored. There must be a semi-permanent fortification here, otherwise when the army returns, Crossing the river is a problem.

On the second day after crossing the river, Yungu's army still crossed the river, but Xiang's army's counterattack continued unabated, and even more and more troops were put into the battlefield.Liang Huonv was out of temper. He really couldn't accept the reality that there was nothing he could do against the Yungu Army, which had about a thousand people.

Since the founding of Beixiang, they have always used less to defeat more. They used thousands of soldiers and horses to defeat others' tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but they were helpless.Now the situation has actually reversed, and someone else's Qianba soldiers have beaten him to the point of being helpless. What is this?

"Starting tomorrow, the entire army will dismount and fight on foot. No matter how hard it is, I will grind this Yungu army to death in Jingyuan Fort. Otherwise, the military prestige accumulated by our country for decades will be gone, and what will we have to stand on?" Failure. Liang Huonv could accept it, but he couldn't accept such a failure. This was related to the foundation of the entire Xiang army.Since the cavalry is too large to charge with muskets, the infantry can be used to disperse the charge. I don't believe that they can't deal with an army of about a thousand people.

The Battle of Jingyuan Fort Ferry lasted four days of fierce fighting before it came to an end. During these four days, Liang Huonv almost piled up all the available soldiers.As a result, except for nearly 3000 casualties, there were no results.The soldiers and horses in the Pingchuan Camp were severely beaten and were no longer able to organize a large-scale offensive.

"Send an order to the front line of Liangzhou. Except for leaving three thousand troops to block the enemy in case the Guining army counterattacks, the rest will all withdraw to Pingchuan and fight a decisive battle with the Yungu army at Jingyuan Fort." Liang Huonv was not prepared to achieve her goal. I stopped there and decided to do something bigger again.

"Commander, have you withdrawn more than [-] troops and horses to fight against the Yungu bandits? Isn't it a small mistake to make a big loss?" Xiang Jun's deputy general Daran had already crossed the river from elsewhere and rushed to the Jingyuanbao camp. He saw that the commander was about to march. Xi's main force withdrew to Pingchuan for a decisive battle with Yungu's army, and quickly issued a warning.

"If we don't take down this Yungu bandit, how can we plan for the west of Hexi? Now the soldiers of the Pingchuan camp have been defeated. If they attack our camp, it will be difficult for our army to hold it. Once the camp is lost, the Yungu bandit can be in ancient times. The Lang Canyon blocks our army's retreat, which means the entire army will be wiped out."

Liang Huonv did not tell Daran all her thoughts. He withdrew the army not only to try his best to annihilate the Yungu Army's northern marching corps, but also to facilitate the retreat of the entire army to Jingzhou and Yinzhou if the battle situation got out of control.No matter what, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who conquered the west cannot be ruined.This is half of Beixiang's family fortune, there is no room for loss!

(End of this chapter)