Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 644 Kicked on the iron plate 2
Boom!

There were two more loud bangs, and it would be polite to say "deafening", the explosion sounded to the Mongolian army and almost shook their souls away!The Ming army used air-burst bombs. Of course, they did not have such superb technology to manufacture advanced instruments such as radio altimeters to control the explosion height of the shells. They just inserted a detonator into the shells and shortened the fuse. , try to let it explode before it hits the ground.Yang Menglong said that the air explosion of the artillery shell is more lethal than the ground explosion, and the coverage is wider. The artillerymen of the Tianxiong Army are very curious and want to see if it is true. Unfortunately, the Mongolian army outside the city has become their test product. .

After two loud bangs, a large piece of the ground fell down again.These unlucky guys are packed too densely, and more than 100 of them will be killed in one shot. The most terrible thing is that the range of the 160mm long-barreled mortar can reach 4000 meters. Most of the Mongolian army is at their destruction Within the range, there is no safe place on the battlefield, they can only be bombed!
After only a few shots, the Mongolian army began to be in chaos. The soldiers looked at each other in horror, looking pale at the blood and broken limbs flying in the sky, and the horses neighed restlessly, struggling desperately, trying to leave this dangerous place.The lethality of this mortar is too terrifying, it is not something that flesh and blood can resist at all, who can't feel terrified after seeing the tragic scene of blood and flesh flying all over the place?Boyan also had cold hands and feet, gritted his teeth, and said, "Retreat! Retreat five miles!" The Mongolian army hurriedly retreated as if receiving an amnesty. Some tribes even clashed to fight for the road, causing chaos.The Ming army took the opportunity to bombard the most densely populated place twice, needless to say, corpses were strewn all over the place, which greatly aggravated the chaos.Zheng Jing was very sorry, alas, it would be great if there was a cavalry. If there was a cavalry to help the battle, they would take the opportunity to fight out. Even if they could not take advantage of the situation to defeat the Mongolian army, at least they could cut them to pieces and let them see Yingzhou. The city walls are afraid!
It's a pity no, except for a dozen or so scouts and military envoys who have horses under him, none of them have horses, so they can only watch the fighter plane slip away from under their noses.However, when he thinks of the ever-increasing military horse farms in Yu County, Bashang, Jingxi, Alxa and other places, he is full of confidence. Although he has no cavalry to dispatch, in the near future, he believes that his troops You can also ride around on horseback!
Repelling the Mongolian army's attack so easily, the Ming army was stunned for a while, and then cheered loudly, mocking the Mongolian army's incompetence and failure to fight.Some soldiers from the frontier army looked at the broken corpses everywhere and said, "It's a pity that so many heads have been smashed to pieces. These are all rewards!"

It's just that these bumpkins are still in the mood to care about the heads, like the Tianxiong Army, they don't care about this thing at all. The experience of the past few years has told them that even if they have won a large number of heads, the imperial court will not be able to give them money to reward them. They, so don't need to care too much about the leader, they should honestly follow the officer's order to fight every battle well, and then leave the battlefield alive.

The Mongolian army was not in the mood to care about the hundreds of battered corpses. They panicked and retreated five miles. This distance is not easy to aim at, so the Tianxiong army did not fire any more, but fear still enveloped everyone. In people's hearts, many people stared straight at the city wall, for fear that there would be life-threatening smoke rising there again.As for the large tent of the Chinese army, it was naturally moved further back, ten miles away from the city wall of Yingzhou, already beyond the limit range of the mortar, but Boyan, Wuhan, Manzhu Xili and others still had lingering fears, and they still held their hands for a long while. trembling.Boyan poured himself a glass of milk wine to calm his shock, but he couldn't even hold the bowl firmly. The wine spilled out of the bowl. He let out an angry roar, threw the bowl hard, and hissed, "Minggou, why don't you?" There will be such terrifying artillery! Who can tell me what is going on with their artillery, why they can hit so far and so hard!"

No one could answer him, and everyone was frightened by the huge power of the mortar.No way, let alone now, even after another 150 years, high-explosive grenade is still a rare commodity on the battlefield. Solid shot and shotgun are the main ammunition for artillery. Like this kind of shelling, there are no ants within 70 meters in diameter. Even in Europe, where artillery technology dominates the world, it is still a product of science fiction—if there were science fiction in Europe at that time!And in Yingzhou, a ghostly place where rabbits don’t shit and birds don’t lay eggs, the Mongolian army tasted what it was like to be bombarded by 160mm caliber long-barreled mortars.

Wuhan murmured: "That cannon is really terrible. One cannon will kill hundreds of us, and tear them to pieces... There are several such cannons, even if we use millions The army can’t even attack Yingzhou City!”

Manzhu Xili whispered, "Maybe attacking Yingzhou was a terrible mistake..."

Just as they were talking, another bad news came: the troops responsible for harassing the cities of Shanyang, Jingbian, and Yanmenguan were all bombarded by giant artillery, causing heavy casualties!
The Tianxiong Army bought a total of sixty 160mm long barrel mortars from Yang Menglong.This thing is too cumbersome, and the rate of fire is too slow. It is absolutely unacceptable to be used in field battles, but it is quite effective in defending the city, so these sixty mortars were deployed to various city fortresses at the border.The Mongolian army knew nothing about the power of this giant cannon. In order to intimidate the soldiers and civilians defending the city, they got too close to the city wall, and they were immediately bombarded by mortars, and were blown to pieces by surprise.The Mongolian army who harassed Jingbian was hit twice, leaving behind 70 dead bodies and scrambling away, but the one who harassed Shanyang was even worse. A shell flew over and landed beside the commander. The commander and more than [-] warriors were blown into the air by the blast wave, and the troops were in chaos.Seeing that there was an advantage to take advantage of, the Ming army immediately opened the gate of the city. More than [-] cavalry rushed out first, followed by [-] musketeers. Mother, a team of thousands of people was completely killed and injured, and only a few dozen people were left running back to report the funeral with one thigh on their shoulders—that was the only thing left by that thousand-man commander in this world.

The thousand-man team that harassed Yanmen Pass was luckier. Although they were also bombarded by mortar artillery, the terrain around Yanmen Pass was broken and their troops were relatively dispersed, so they did not cause too many casualties.However, it was also because of the broken terrain that it was difficult for the cavalry to deploy. Four hundred musketeers of the Ming army came out of the city to fight under the cover of a hundred cavalry, and they suffered heavy casualties with fierce volleys of guns.

The bad news one after another made the hearts of every Mongolian nobleman sink.The information they obtained in advance was not wrong. The main force of the Ming army had already entered the grassland, and there were not many troops left inside the side walls. Each city could only place at most one corps, and the preparations were extremely scattered.However, the Ming army's excellent equipment and powerful combat power were completely beyond their imagination. Relying on the cover of artillery, they could easily defeat a thousand-man team with a corps!This also means that their containment tactics have completely failed.What is containment?The so-called containment is to use far fewer troops than the enemy to pin the enemy to a certain position, so that they cannot attack, retreat or reinforce. If the enemy can easily defeat the troops you sent to contain them with fewer troops There is no way to talk about containment of troops.Now the Tianxiong Army has done it, and the tactics that the Mongolian Army relied on to traverse the Eurasian continent have completely failed in front of them. This situation has never happened before.

Now let alone the strategic initiative, even the tactical initiative has fallen to the Tianxiong Army.

Boyan asked blankly: "What shall we do now?"

Wuhan said painfully: "Let's withdraw our troops... If we can't fight, even if we can fight, the casualties will be extremely heavy. We can't afford this kind of battle!"

Boyan smiled miserably: "Do you think it will be okay if we withdraw our troops? In order to cope with the Tianxiong Army's encirclement and suppression, we delayed reserving forage and catching autumn fat for cattle and sheep; due to the Tianxiong Army's blockade, we have not received any information from the Han people for several months. Food and cloth were bought there; at the same time, due to the encirclement and suppression by the Tianxiong Army, we don't know how much hay and dried cow dung were burned by them, how many cattle and sheep were snatched away, and even if we retreated to the grassland, how many people would be there? Can you survive this winter?"

The words made everyone gasp for breath.Life in the grasslands is hard. They work hard to graze animals, endure hunger and hunger, and risk their lives in the fall to plunder border areas to obtain food and cloth in order to survive the winter. Now they A lot of people died without getting anything, and a lot of pasture and fuel for the winter were burned by the Tianxiong army. How can we survive this winter?
To make matters worse, the Lei Shisheng Corps has not shown any signs of coming to reinforce Yingzhou until now, and it seems that they are not worried about Yingzhou at all.The fact that this large army is not moving now does not mean that they will not move when the Mongolian army withdraws dejectedly towards Ulanqab - I believe that Lei Shisheng, who has been asking for a fight, will be happy to ruthlessly attack the Mongolian army when their morale is at its lowest. Bite them hard, and even leave all their tens of thousands of horses on the grassland to use the pasture as fertilizer.

If you want to advance, you can't retreat. Even in the early Ming Dynasty, the Mongols had never tried to be so passive. They had never tried it.

Boyan stood up, looked around the crowd, and said in a shrill voice, "We have no way out! Minggou will not give us a way out. If we retreat this time, they will intensify and deploy more cannons to the border. The cities have been built stronger, and every day that passes, it becomes more difficult for us to take down these cities! They still have a large army rampaging on the grassland, looking for a chance to bite us hard! Only by breaking through Yingzhou, Pushing into the Datong Basin, forcing that large army to come to support, and then relying on the cannons of the fortified city to defeat it, we can return to the prairie safely and survive this winter safely!"

"Although the power of their cannons is terrifying, it is impossible to fire them continuously. After a long time of shooting, they must stop to let the barrels cool down; although their firecrackers are powerful, their barrels will turn red after being fired for a long time! We completely They can be defeated! Divide into several waves, launch uninterrupted attacks from multiple directions, don't worry about casualties, only by winning Yingzhou City, we are qualified to feel sorry for the casualties of tribal warriors!"

Beast-like howls resounded through the central military tent, and all the Mongolian nobles shuddered.

Yes, they have no way out, from the moment they decided to attack Yingzhou and burn the war to the Datong Basin, no, from the moment Lu Xiangsheng decided to send troops to take the entire Hetao Plain, they have no way out.If they hesitate at the foot of Yingzhou City, reinforcements from the Ming army will soon come from all directions and surround them; if they retreat at this point, Lei Shisheng's corps will [-]% open their bloody mouths and show their fangs Prepare to rip them to shreds!
Only by taking Yingzhou can they have a chance of survival, there is no other way!

(End of this chapter)