Chapter 364: Bloody Battle of Shaanxi's Yellow River Red (38)
Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army, saw that the Hui army had built a five-mile half-moon-shaped wall with debris and soil in the east, north and west directions. The height of the guard was more than half a person, and was ready to attack in the south facing the official camp. After seeing the arrangement of the Hui army, Zhang Ping'an shook his head gently. In his opinion, the Hui army had fought with the Pou Nu Army for so long, but he could not think of a defensive trick. Ma Tengyao must have been kicked by a donkey in his head.
However, these were not the focus of Zhang Ping'an's concern. He wanted to drive the Hui army westward and directly to the Yellow River five miles westward. So, Zhang Ping'an ordered Hu Ming before returning to the official camp to attack the official army and led Qi Heng to launch a general attack on the Hui army. With the issuance of the order of Zhang Dashui, the Hu Ming army formation in the east of the Po Nu Army took the lead in moving first. Hu Ming's artillery 200 crossbows were bombarded on the east side of the Po Nu Army Central Army formation on the east side of the Po Nu Army.
Zhang Ping'an was quietly observing the battlefield with a telescope in his hand. He sighed in his heart that the crossbow cannons will not take long to be eliminated. The opponents fighting against the Pou Nu Army have figured out the weaknesses of the * in the war. As long as there are guard walls and sandbags, they can break the * attack. It is time to improve the Pou Nu Army artillery, otherwise the sharp advantage of the Pou Nu Army weapon will disappear. Just as Zhang Ping'an was observing the enemy situation, the Pou Nu Army led by Hu Ming rode a horse and entered the east position of the return army 150 feet away.
Hu Ming immediately issued an order: Ten thousand musket soldiers dismounted from the formation, and the remaining bass cavalry gradually moved south. Zhang Ping'an couldn't help but give a thumbs up when he saw Hu Ming's arrangement. Hu Ming was indeed a good player in catching fighter jets in battle. The arrangement of this hob meat was on the left wing of the military formation. In the eyes of the enemy, since the bass army's central army formation was on the right wing of the attacking troops, Hu Ming's troops did not have to worry about the safety of the right wing. In fact, Hu Ming was waiting to return to the army to attack the southern official camp, so that the left wing of the back attacking troops would be exposed to his attacking line.
Seeing this, Zhang Ping'an put away his telescope and his right hand, his feet knocked his horse's belly, and the war horse slowly walked towards him. Although Gu Xin had not yet understood the specific intention of Zhang Da's General Zhang, he hurriedly chased after him when he saw Zhang Ping'an leaving. Seeing this, Hao Yidao, the guard of the personal barracks, led the two thousand personal guards to follow Zhang Da's General. Without Zhang Ping'an's view, Hu Ming's tactic will definitely achieve miraculous results. The weakness of any military formation is on its flank. The attack of the Slave Army and the subsequent attack of the musket soldiers will definitely force the Return Army to make a last fight. Attacking the Ming Dynasty's official army and mixing with the official army is the final choice of the Return Army commander Ma Tengyao.
When the Hui army attacked the official army camp, Hu Ming's attack from the flank cavalry was the last straw that crushed the Hui army. At this time, he did not need to worry about it. He wanted to go to the Wu Tianxing army's troops on the west side of the army to command the encirclement after the defeat of the Hui army. As Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army, expected, Ma Tengyao, was in a state of chaos at this moment. When the attacking troops of the Pou Nu Army were arranged in one and a half long and three rows of standard musket troops, he ordered the Hui army to rush to the official army camp.
The Muskets Army's Muskets Army began to fire lead bullets seventy feet away from the guard wall of the army. The next round of muskets soldiers advanced five steps to continue shooting amid the officer's command. The continuous shooting of the muskets soldiers of the Poskets successfully interrupted Ma Tengyao's thinking, and he also led his personal guards to the east to observe the enemy situation. With the help of the crackling sound of muskets, Hu Ming led the army to increase the speed of horses. Hu Ming took the lead and shook his cavalry on the high-speed battle horse, and tilted the flag bearer forward with Hu Ming's instructions, indicating that the entire army would charge closely with the battle flag.
The sound of horse hooves like thunder finally made the attacking Huijun look sideways. But the Huijun found that the Ponu Army had attacked the army formation on a large inclined surface of the Ponu Army. The Ponu Army cavalry had rushed into the Reich infantry formation, and the war horses were either hit or flew away the Return Army without any mental preparation. The unstoppable Ponu Army cavalry was like farmers harvesting wheat fields. They leveled the Return Army formation in groups. Hu Ming, who rushed into the enemy formation, did not fight hard, but slowed down his horse speed and carefully observed the Return Army formation.
The noise of the entire battlefield did not affect Hu Ming's keen vision. As he looked, he found a team of more than a thousand cavalry a hundred feet away. Hu Ming knew that the cavalry of the Hui army had been eliminated by General Zhang. If he had such a large cavalry, he was not in a hurry to fight with the Possess Army. It means that they were protecting an important general. The generals who could get so many cavalry protection in the Hui army had no one else except the commander of the Hui army, Ma Tengyao. Thinking of this, he led the five thousand cavalry around him to turn north.
Ma Tengyao, who was patrolling the battlefield, also noticed the strange attack of the Pou Nu Army. According to common sense, the horse team in the high-speed attack could not turn quickly. The tactics of the Pou Nu Army are unpredictable. Just when Ma Tengyao wanted to withdraw from this dangerous place, the Pou Nu Army cavalry led by Hu Ming rushed to the front of the Hui Army cavalry in just one moment. The turning of the Return Horse cavalry gave Hu Ming an excellent opportunity. Ma Tengyao, in the middle of the horse was hit by the cavalry attacking at the high-speed of the Pou Nu Army.
As the commander of the Hui army, Ma Tengyao wore Ming Guang armor, which made him the focus of the entire Hui army team. The Pou Nu soldiers who were old in the war were all veterans who confirmed the enemy generals. Ma Tengyao's clothes were of course the targets for the soldiers of the Pou Nu Army. When Ma Tengyao fell off the horse and fell dizzy, he was caught by the Pou Nu Army, who had superb riding skills, from the ground and directly on the saddle bridge. Hu Ming didn't know who was being caught. While he was struggling, the entire Hui army formation collapsed instantly after Ma Tengyao was captured.
They lost their will to resist and ran towards the unguarded west. It was not until this moment that Hu Ming realized that his troops had caught the big fish. After seeing the situation on the battlefield, Hu Ming ordered the slowdown of the attack of the Pou Nu Army, and ordered the offensive troops to collect the weapons from the old camp of the army and drive the remaining troops westward. The Central Army formation of the Pou Nu Army, which had not been moved, also began to move south.
Mr. Zhang, who walked to Wu Tianxing's position, ordered Wu Tianxing's troops to attack after the Hui army collapsed, and cut off the possibility of Hui army crossing the Yellow River west. Xu Zhen's troops led their troops to attack from the north of Hui army into the scattered military formation with Hu Ming and Qi Heng's troops to drive the Hui army west. The cavalry of Wu Tianxing's troops did not attack quickly. They were hundreds of feet apart from the Hui army's defeated troops, and then a diagonally inserted into the west of the frozen Yellow River to block the Hui army.
When the Hui army attacked the official army camp with all its might, it really scared the officers and soldiers of the capital. When the Hui army was still one mile away, the cannons, muskets, and other firearms placed behind the village wall were constantly being deployed. Sun Chengzong, the old master of the Ming Pavilion at the five-meter-high command platform in the official army camp, was heartbroken to see this scene. The Ming government army was still afraid of war in the face of such a weak Hui army, how could it be of great use? The lively firearm attacks of the official army did not hurt many Hui army, but some of the firearms exploded and caused small-scale panic in the official army.
Fortunately, when the Ponu Army attacked 60 meters away from the official army camp, the cavalry launched a general attack on the Hui army, completely getting rid of the embarrassing situation of the official army. Despite this, the Ming Dynasty's official army still ignited the tiger cannon in front of the camp, scaring the Ponu Army on the attack. When the Ponu Army drove the Hui army to the west as agreed, the official army camp finally heard the cheers of victory.
Teams of officials rushed out of the camp excitedly and surrounded the Hui army above the Yellow River. More than 30,000 cavalry in the capital stole the limelight from the Hu Ming cavalry of the Po Nu Army, and they shook their entire backs in front of the Po Nu Army. Zhang Ping'an, who was watching the battle under his personal guards, shook his head even more. Seeing this, the capital's official army that robbed military merits was even worse than the wild wolves in the grassland, and even had his life for military merits. However, the state of the Ming official army was exactly what he wanted. He only left Xu Zhen to surround the ruined old camp of the Hui army, and Du Xiaoshan led the inspection team to confiscate it, and count the remaining goods of the Hui army.
When Hu Ming and Qi Heng returned to Zhang Ping'an to hand over the order, Zhang Ping'an called Hu Ming to his side and told him: "You are a good job this time! You can take the troops back to Ningxia Guard to rest and order the personal military camp to head to Chazishan to meet with Tian Peng."
After Hu Ming led his headquarters to Ningxia Guard, Zhang Ping'an rode his horse alone and walked forward ten feet away from the protection of his personal guards. He called Gu Xin and told him in a low voice: "I will go to Huangtugou tonight and go to Table Mountain tomorrow. You will take my gold medal here to deal with the aftermath. Remember, don't be rude to these veterans, I will ask Xiaoshan to help you with the battlefield. You must be more careful when dealing with the Ming official army. The people of Lingzhou must not give up the Ningxia Guard if they do not retreat across the Yellow River. The Ming official army who dares to attack the people will fight against them. If they don't fight, they must be hurt if they fight! I will hand over Haserdun to you, and he will be responsible for fighting with the Ming official army. In this case, even if the Ming court negotiates with us, we will have a way out."
Just as Zhang Ping'an explained the follow-up matters to Gu Xin, a team of thousands of cavalrymen walked out of the official army camp. They were fighting the flag of the commander-in-chief. Without Zhang Ping'an thinking too much, it must be the old fox Sun Chengzong who came to say goodbye to him. Before Zhang Ping'an could speak, his personal guard Qian Zong Hao Yidao and a thousand personal guards came forward to meet him, blocking the cavalry's way.
In view of this, Zhang Ping'an could only bring the remaining 1,300 guards to greet him. His already tired face turned full of youth when he saw Sun Chengzong. Hao Yidao did not care about the high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty. As long as he threatened General Zhang, he would not allow the official cavalry to approach him. Sun Chengzong also knew that the little fox had concerns about the morale of the Ming Dynasty's officials and soldiers, so he only brought more than fifty servants to Zhang Ping'an.
Chapter completed!