Chapter 314: The Bloody Battle of Shaanxi (8)
The cold wind blew the desolate Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, and the smell of sand mixed with blood. After three days of rest, the Posou Army once again sounded the horn of war.
In addition to the slope chariots, the Pou Nu Army's attack today also had chariots to help. Moreover, the Pou Nu Army commander Zhang Ping'an adjusted the offensive line to only ensure that the attack on the middle lane stopped the attack on the left and right wings. Zhang Ping'an was preparing to use a new tactic to break through the point and bloom and encircle the two wings.
When Zhang Ping'an and Sun Chengzong sat on the command high ground again, they saw Xiao Luo Tianzheng commanding the brothers of the personal military camp to build a sandbag for defense artillery on the command platform. Zhang Ping'an did not say much about this. Luo Tian did this in accordance with the Regulations on the Slave Breaking Army. Of course, Zhang Ping'an, as the commander of the First Army, would not violate the regulations he set.
Sun Chengzong saw that the little fox Zhang Ping'an started attacking before he could wait for news about Datong, which surprised Sun Chengzong. Although Zhang Ping'an's approach violated his original intention of threatening the court, it was in line with Sun Chengzong's purpose of quickly resolving the thief Gao Yingxiang, so Sun Chengzong did not ask questions either.
The King of Chuang, Gao Yingxiang, obviously learned a lot of tactics from the Po Nu Army during the war. The Chuang Army built many bunkers on the front high ground and strengthened the troops on the first line of defense. Although the Chuang Army lacked armor and the weapons in the hands of the Chuang Army were complicated, the Chuang Army was very morale, and they had a clear combat goal, that is, to fight for survival.
The army formation of the Ponu Army that stretched for ten miles was clearly divided into black armor, and the war horses were neighing and neighing back to the battlefield. As the main force of the attack, the Ponu Army's heavy armored infantry ghost sword captain flashed cold light, the sword shield and the sword and shield sword were unsheathed, the spearman's spear tilted forward slightly, and the musket and pistol bullets were loaded. The engineers were hidden behind the cavalry, and the crossbows on the chariot had already been put in place with stringed shells.
The 30,000 elite soldiers and generals of the Ponu Army were ready to go, and they waited for their commander Zhang Ping'an to tremble under their steel swords. The wait for the soldiers of the Ponu Army was not long, and the rumbling war drums in command of the high ground indicate the beginning of the bloody battle.
As usual, the artillery team commanded by Yang Kui first opened the prelude to the offensive. In front of the position less than two miles away, the Pou Nu Army's artillery team concentrated 600 crossbows and 30 artillery pieces to attack the Defensive Bunker. The Rebellion Army obviously only learned the fur of the Pou Nu Army building the bunker. They did not build thick sandbags on the top of the bunker. How could the thin wooden ceiling withstand the continuous bombardment?
After the three-wheeled shelling, the ceiling of the Breakfast collapsed. The sandbag on the front of the bunker was obviously not thick enough, and the wall was knocked down by the second-wheeled artillery of the Breakfast Army. Taking this opportunity, the attacking troops of the Breakfast Army pushed the ramp cart to approach the Breakfast Army's positions.
Although the Break Army was beaten up by the Ponu Army, Zhang Fei, the general stationed in the high ground, first slashed the escaped soldiers with a knife, and then led the remaining 800 Break Army straight to attack the Break Army Ghost Sword Team. On the charge road less than fifty feet, they were ruthlessly blocked by the Ghost Sword Team's musketeers. The lead bullets fired by the Break Army's muskets splashed blood in the attacking crowd. The thin cotton coat of the Break Army could not stop the lead bullet from passing through at high speed. Any Break Army targeted by the lead bullet will be torn into a blood hole by the lead bullet. Once the lead bullet hits the arm or thigh, the splashed blood mist will basically be left with a trace of flesh.
Before the firefighters in the personal camp of the Ghost Sword Team could follow up, the Burgundy Army musket soldiers who provided firepower support at the foot of the mountain were blocked by the Ghost Sword Team and could not provide effective firepower support. Zhang Fei's counterattack troops of the Burgundy Army soon collided with the Burgundy Army ghost sword team. Due to the complicated weapons of the Burgundy Army, most of the Burgundy Army soldiers were holding farm tools such as rakes, iron forks, hoes, and many other broken weapons such as wooden sticks. Less than 20% of the soldiers with battle knives were used.
Even with such a simple weapon, the soldiers of the Breaking Army who were well-equipped with the well-equipped Pou Nu Army did not retreat. The soldiers shouted and rushed towards the vicious Pou Nu Army. From a distance, the Pou Nu Army was like a black torrent, and they were secretly angry and wanted to show the strength of the Pou Nu Army with their passion. The general of the Breaking Army who was more than eight feet tall, Zhang Fei, wearing leather armor, held a shield in his left hand and holding a nine-ring sword in his right hand and shouted loudly: "Brothers! Kill the official army!"
The ghost knife hand Tan Yuzhou wore skeleton armor on his face, and his bloodthirsty eyes were like a wolf staring at the opponent's every move. When Zhang Fei was five feet away from his ghost knife team, Tan Yuzhou shouted loudly: "Protection!" The ghost knife team he led immediately contracted into a defensive formation. The two spearmen left their left foot and right feet were separated from the front and right feet, and faced the enemy with their spear halfway.
The sword and shield hand stood the five-foot shield on the ground, with his right shoulder and left foot on his knee, and his right hand held the sword and raised the sword above his head and hedged the sword to the army, guarding Tan Yuzhou. Under the protection of the entire team, the musketman knelt on his own leg and pulled out a single lead ammunition and paper tube from his belt with a strip to compact the ammunition into the barrel, and then used his thumb to break open the lower end of the ammunition paper tube and gently buckle it on the door, "Gun is good!" He shouted at the ghost knife hand and signaled that they could fire again.
Shortly after the shouting of Zhang Fei fell, he raised the four-foot nine-ring sword in his hand, and took advantage of the upwind and uphill slope. When Tan Yuzhou was still ten feet away from the ghost knife hand of the Ponu Army, he suddenly jumped up, and he slashed Huashan with force and rushed straight to the ghost knife hand. "Punch!" As soon as Zhang Fei jumped up, Tan Yuzhou issued a command to steal the spearman. The two spearmen standing behind the sword shield hand aimed at Zhang Fei's body in mid-air and stabbed forward and shouted: "Kill!", and the two spears tacitly penetrated Zhang Fei's chest and abdomen.
The spear thrust in the blink of an eye made Zhang Fei unable to retreat. He could only slash the raised sword downwards, cutting the spear pole while sealing the spear. The spear of the Slave Army was specially designed by their extremely dark man Zhang Dashu. The triangular spear made of three-foot thin and thin iron contains a sharp blood groove. As fast as light flashes, Zhang Fei's sword only slashed the spear head half a foot, and the sharp spear went straight to Zhang Fei's left rib.
Only after he heard a "pop" sound after he was inserted into the flesh, the spear passed through his leather armor and penetrated the rear armor half a foot. Zhang Fei screamed in pain and slid to the ground. Then his left hand held the spear rod and gritted his teeth and raised the knife again. When Zhang Fei's nine-ring battle knife was lifted, the ghost knife hand in the hand of Tan Yuzhou had already chopped down. The ghost knife hand of the gold and stone met with two swords, Tan Yuzhou's ghost knife cut Zhang Fei's battle knife directly on his right shoulder, and broke Zhang Fei's hand. The two guards' swordsmen took this opportunity to stab forward with both swords, and the sharp sword pierced Zhang Fei's heart. Zhang Fei, who had been practicing horizontal kung fu for sixteen years, had not walked a round before the strict ghost sword formation, but was chopped in half by the ghost knife that Tan Yuzhou raised again. The blood sprinkled on Tan Yuzhou and the sword protector red.
Similar to Tan Yuzhou's situation, the same scene was staged with the Ghost Sword Team of the Breaking Army, which was mixed up with the Breaking Army. The Breaking Shield Hand moved the shield forward again and again, and the Ghost Sword Hand cut the soldiers of the Breaking Army in half again and again. The spearmen stabbed accurately, and the musketsmen covered and opened fire just right. The 800 counterattack troops of the Breaking Army were thinned again and again, and finally wiped out the entire battle.
Seeing the outstanding performance of the Pou Nu Army Ghost Sword Team, Zhang Ping'an, who was commanding the high ground to watch the battle, sighed: "Qi Yuanjing (Qi Jiguang's name is handsome!" Sun Chengzong was quite acknowledged the sighs from the little fox. The mandarin duck formation created by Qi Jiguang decades ago became the Pou Nu Army Ghost Sword Team formation after Zhang Ping'an changed the formation again, and continued to shine with new light.
When the firearms soldiers of the personal camp rushed to the high ground, the ghost sword team began to gather again under the guidance of the Swan Honour of the Thousand General Officer. The musketeers arranged six hundred-man formations under the leadership of the general officer to alert the possible attack of the rebel army. The engineers were obviously inspired by the last battle. They used the slope chariot to drive out three ramps, which was built in less than half an hour for the cavalry to pass through.
The cavalry troops of the personal barracks, who had been stimulated by the military merits of the Ghost Sword Team, were quickly passed the ramp to the depth of the two wings under the leadership of the General General of the Thousand General Officer. They were eager to encircle the rear of the front-line troops of the Break Army and trap the retreat of more Break Army troops. However, the Break Army was interspersed quickly, and Gao Yingxiang, who was good at running away, moved faster. He knew that his first line of defense had completely failed at the moment when Zhang Fei died.
Zhang Ping'an, the baby commander of the Pound Army, deserves to be extremely strange in the cunning fox wolf tactics on the grassland. He completely found the weakness of the defense line of the Breakers, and broke through the defense line to shake the entire defense line. He used the breakthrough point to expand the results, and then used the strong mobility of the Pound Army's cavalry to surround the back of the defense line of the Breakers. This tactic can cause the defense line of the Breakers to collapse in a short period of time. Therefore, he used the gap between the Breakers' army's ramp to order the front-line garrison to retreat quickly.
Seeing the Breaking Army running away again, Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Breaking Army, was a little crazy. He ordered the Breaking Army's attacking troops to organize an attack on the deep defense of the Breaking Army on the spot. Zhang Ping'an handed over the organization of the attack to Gu Xin's General Staff to implement it. He frowned and stared at the map with his eyes in mind. Gu Xin saw that Zhang Dama was thinking about the war and did not disturb him. Gu Xin took a group of staff to the tent of the General Staff to issue orders.
The current war seemed to disturb the cold wind-torn sky. A large area of thick dark clouds floated from the clear blue sky, pressing against the fighting sides under the disturbance of the strong wind. Zhang Ping'an, who took back his deep thought, focused his eyes on the current battlefield again. He saw that the attacking troops of the Pou Slave Army's personal barracks once again integrated the team in front of the breakthrough, and the other units filled the front trenches of the Break Army. General Qian, Yang Kui, led the artillery team to arrange artillery positions on the breakthrough front line of the Break Army. With the help of the auxiliary soldiers, the artillery team had already entered the formation, and the guns pointed directly at the second line of defense of the Break Army.
Chapter completed!