Chapter 212: Million Siege, Offensive and Defensive Battle (3)
After seeing the Jurchen army's commander Zhang Ping'an, when he saw that the Jurchen army began to attack in full swing, he still focused on the Han army's traitor's army that had sneaked into attacks.
As he expected, this army only brought siege equipment such as siege ladders. Zhang Ping'an knew very well that the north of Dingnu City was a mountain with rocks, and large siege equipment such as shields and chariots could not be carried into the battlefield.
In addition to swords and spears, the weapons of this army also have hundreds of muskets that are mixed. From this point of view, Nurhaci and the Jurchen troops still do not pay attention to the muskets of the Pou Slave Army that have repeatedly suffered great losses.
Through experiments before the war, Zhang Ping'an knew very well that the messy muskets of the Jurchen troops were not really threatening to the Pou Slave Army. The compound armor of the Pou Slave Army would not be penetrated by the traitorous musket within fifteen feet. Seeing this, he curled his lips to the troops with contempt and turned to see the situation of the Jurchen attacking troops.
If you talk about the attacking troops of the Jurchens, he was still shocked. Under the cloud-like flags, there were small and neat squares of black and neat colors, under the cover of the shield chariot, gradually approaching Dingnu and Baishan command posts.
Zhang Ping'an secretly counted the level of attack of the Jurchen traitor troops. He initially judged that the attacking troops of 200,000 people were divided into five offensive echelons by Nurhaci. The only thing that surprised him was that Nurhaci's offensive tactics had not changed much.
Dingnu City's attack was on the rise. Nurhaci's Ming traitor troops, in addition to attacking the cloud ladder, had more than 30 20-meter-high eight-wheel siege towers. After these siege towers were pulled into the predetermined position by ox carts, nearly a hundred soldiers were pushing slowly forward with shouts.
There are several squads of 100 people protecting them scattered around these siege towers in each siege tower. There are several phalanxes of attacking dead soldiers holding battle knives and shields at the siege tower. The number of people in each phalanx is about 500. It seems that these dead soldiers are preparing to rush into Dingnu City after the siege tower approaches the walls of Dingnu City.
There is one thing that Zhang Ping'an never figured out. Through the last tentative attack, Lao Nu had already figured out that there was a natural platform under the wall of Dingnu City. The platform was nearly ten feet away from the city wall, and the siege tower was not reliable at all. How could Lao Nu make such a confusion?
When he saw the location of the Han army in the White Flag again, he felt relieved. The north side of Dingnu City was wide and flat, which was very suitable for siege towers and siege. He did not consider this. This shows that Nurhaci had already carefully examined the terrain of Dingnu City.
However, Zhang Ping'an had a solution to this, but he felt that he was indeed a little unwilling to ignite the siege towers for these dozens of siege towers. But he knew very well that Zhang Li's troops in Dingnu City did not have artillery, and the crossbow cannon with the greatest power of the siege tower would not cause substantial damage to the siege towers.
In order to avoid unnecessary casualties between Dingnucheng and Liu Chong's troops who were about to attack, he had to issue an order: "Order! Dingnucheng ignite*. At the same time, the order: Liu Chong's troops attack as planned. Tell Liu Chong that I want him to destroy this traitorous army in the shortest time!"
The personal soldiers who received the order first ignited the cannon, and then immediately used flag language to sing the flag language at the Rudeyin attack camp.
After three deafening cannons, about one stick of incense was attacked and rushed out of the neatly arranged team of Liu Chong's troops.
Liu Chong's troops of 8,000 people arranged a double-grade attack formation after leaving the camp. The shield hands were in front of them to protect the five thousand musketeers behind them.
Liu Chong's army had a clear goal, which was to pass directly from the west of Dingnu City. Straight behind the Han army in the Yellow Banner, and rush the enemy to the attack camp. Let the crossbows left behind in the attack camp completely break up the enemy. Then narrow the encirclement and wipe out the enemy completely.
Just as Liu Chong's troops firmly attacked the west of Dingnu City, Zhang Ping'an, the head coach of the Ponu Army, looked a little bad. He found that he had ignored a detail. When the Ponu Army was marching, if the 100-man square formation was led by the leader to blew the whistle and adjust the pace of the troops. The 100-man square formation was blew the whistle by the deputy 100-man square formation.
Liu Chong's double-grade character attacked the formation, because the troops set out in a different way. The whistle blew from the leader Qianshou was not only the same. The veterans were a little better. They were used to listening to the whistle of their whistle and could tell that it was the whistle of their thirstle. The new recruits were a little confused, which made the troops surely confusing while they were moving.
Fortunately, the veteran was led by him. Under the guidance of the veteran, these new soldiers quickly adjusted their somewhat panicked steps according to the veteran's pace.
Seeing this, Zhang Ping'an secretly thanked that if Liu Chong had not been prepared for this, the formation would be chaotic, and he would not know how many people would have died. The responsibility for this mistake was not below, but the full responsibility of his commander.
He pushed his face armor to his head and said to Gu Xin beside him: "Gu Xin, I think I made a mistake. Zhang Han once suggested to me: Use drums to adjust the pace when the Po Nu Army marched, but I didn't listen. It's still reasonable that he said. Now I'm not in a hurry, I can only wait for improvement after the war!"
Gu Xin nodded with a smile and did not reply. He had long seen that Mr. Zhang was not concerned about the outcome of today's battle. As the chief of staff of the Slave Army, he knew the burial place of * and the power of *. As long as * exploded, there would be no suspense in the attack of the Jurchens on Dingnu City.
Mr. Zhang's attitude of only caring about Liu Chong's troops' attack formation is very telling. Gu Xin knew very well why the Jurchens did not dare to use the siege tower when they attacked Baishan command post. In addition to the unsuitable terrain, due to the destruction of the Jurchen artillery team last time, the smooth structure of the lake surface was completely changed after the explosion. The entire lake surface was bumpy and the huge siege tower could not be passed through.
Just as Gu Xin was thinking about it, a series of huge explosions sounded in the east of Dingnu City. The silver-white lake surface first burst out with light bubbles, and then a semicircular shock wave swept across the lake surface. The black mud at the bottom of the lake rushed upwards and covered with stone-like ice and smashed towards the ground.
The tall and strong siege tower was instantly overturned. The soldiers who promoted the siege tower were either killed or injured by the fallen siege tower, or stripped of armor and clothes by the shock waves generated by the explosion, or were shattered by the internal organs, and fell to the ground and rolled to survive.
The cracked ice layer on the lake formed a fracture zone about three miles wide. The black crack swallowed everything along the way, and the ice raised by the explosion disrupted the formation of the Jurchen Han army flag attacking troops. When the Jurchen troops fled in panic, it triggered a large-scale stampede, and many Ming traitors who were injured by ice stones were injured in secondary injuries.
As the Ming traitors fled from their positions, around the explosion spots that had stopped, there were covered with wounded soldiers with bloody heads and missing arms and legs. The huge shock wave generated by the explosion also overturned many shield cars in front of the Tartars' offensive formation. The biting cold lake water wet the armor on the wounded soldiers. In the cold winter, under the white mountain where water drips into ice, the frozen armor made them lose hope of treatment.
Gu Xinchu looked at the explosion spot and expected that only 60% of the explosions would explode. Even so, almost no siege towers involved in the attack were left. However, the Jurchen raping troops who were killed were not as much as Mr. Zhang had expected. Mr. Zhang once predicted that he would kill 10,000 Tartars, but in the end, only more than 3,000 people could not stand up, and one or two thousand people fell into the lake and disappeared.
The shield chariot used by the Ming genocide troops to cover them was not serious in general, even though some of them were overturned by the explosion shock wave. However, the shield chariot is not very useful now, because the Ming genocide's subsequent attack troops were all foolishly staying in place, neither running away nor daring to attack. They were afraid that the Slave Army would have more useless.
Liu Chong's troops, who attacked the Han army in the Yellow Banner, were temporarily shocked by the huge explosion. Fortunately, Liu Chong's reaction was relatively fast. He urged the troops regardless of ignorance to speed up the march, arrived at the predetermined position, and completed the battle goals set by General Zhang.
The Jurchen Meleezhenyizifenneh, who led the Han army in the Yellow Banner, was originally full of confidence. As long as the shield cart and siege tower pushed by the Jurchen camp opposite were in place, he could use the shield cart to protect his rear from the enemy camp behind Baishan of the Po Nu Army. He could also use the shield cart to make the siege tower approach the west gate of Dingnu City.
In this way, an attack can be launched on the west side of Dingnu City, which is the smoothest terrain, offsetting the dangerous terrain in the east, north and south directions of Dingnu City.
The Khan and several Beile made sufficient preparations for this attack. His surprise soldier was the main attack and was feinted in other directions. Although he was not sure what happened to this series of huge explosions, because Dingnucheng blocked his sight, he vaguely felt something was wrong in his heart.
Before Yizifennehe woke up from the explosion, he saw the Po Nu Army pressing towards the west gate of Dingnu City. At first he did not think badly, because the direction of Liu Chong's army was the place where he was going to attack. Yizifennehe believed that this unit was a defensive means to protect the west gate of Dingnu City.
But when Yizifennehe saw that the troops were not defensive at the west gate of Dingnu City, they divided into two groups, blocking his way to the east and the camp, and the other group continued to advance behind him.
Yizifennehe was shocked when he saw this. The tactics of the Pou Nu Army made him feel a little unsure. But he knew one thing that the series of explosions on the east side of Dingnu City just now were very similar to the explosions when the Pou Nu Army exploded the Jurchen artillery team.
Yizifennehe has been following Nurhaci in war since he was fourteen years old, especially when he participated in every battle between the Jurchens and the Pou Nu Army, and was very familiar with the tactics of the Pou Nu Army. He was also gradually promoted from the white-armored personal soldiers beside Nurhaci to Meleezhen, who commanded the Han army's yellow flag.
He judged that the Pou Nu Army had re-used the same trick, detonated the lake, and blocked all the support the Khan wanted to give him. Yizifenneha knew the combat power of the Pou Nu Army very well. Although the Pou Nu Army was preparing to attack him, the number of people was not as good as his troops.
Chapter completed!