Chapter 955: The wind breaks the giant tree, the grass is soft and strong (21)
After experiencing blood, the Wutu Thorn Grassland was filled with sorrow. The dark clouds covered the sky under the strong wind, and the snowflakes spread from small to large. After three days of rest, Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army, chose to launch another attack on the snowy day. His strategy of violating the routine of combat surprised the generals of the Pou Nu Army. Although the heavy snow weather was not good for the enemy, it was also not good for the Pou Nu Army's attack, no one dared to refute Zhang's decision. The black flags floated in the white wilderness and dark clouds, and red flowers were mixed between the black army formations under the Holy Battle, and the cavalry was like a forest army formation. The silver skeleton armor in the Black Army formation emitted a burst of cold light, and the people and horses sprayed out white hot air in the cold wind, hiding the bloodthirsty figure in the depths of the fog.
On the battlefield that lasts dozens of miles from southeast to northwest, the Ponu Army arranged hundreds of square formations, and the scout cavalry team in front of the formation patrols back and forth to inform Shangguan of the enemy situation. The right-wing cluster of the Ponu Army adopted a light front and heavy formation on the back. The reinforced chariot battalion was divided into two attacking arrow formations, with the target pointing directly to the southwest Ross main formation. The chariot battalion was no longer flat, and they would mix with the Ghost Sword Team with a hundred-man infantry team to cooperate in combat. Behind the Ghost Sword Team were horse-riding heavy armored infantry that supplemented the combat, and they were subdivided into 100-man cavalry teams, replacing the exhausted brothers in the battle at any time. The two chariot formations were ten miles apart, and each chariot formation was six meters apart. The Pinzi formation was used as the basic formation and dozens of small formations formed a large formation.
There are six cavalry formations of thousands of people behind the two mixed chariot battalions. These cavalry can not only guard the left and right of the chariots, but also transform them into musket soldiers to provide short-range protection for the chariots. Behind the cavalry formation is the long-range fire support constructed by the 800 crossbow box trucks and 200 artillery pieces of artillery. The gunners who are ready to go are checking for the last time as pack horses and touching grease on the axles of the box trucks and gun racks. The crossbow box trucks and guns are pulled by two pack horses, and each box truck and gun rack are equipped with horses. In order to provide enough for the crossbows and guns, the artillery team also has 1,500 ammunition box trucks, and the two gun arrays occupy a radius of fifteen miles.
On the left and right and behind the artillery team, there are irregularly arranged cavalry formations of thousands of people. The flags of the battalions and the post flags of the headquarters flutter in the wind. The flags of the 100-man teams and the flags of the sergeant are clustered into clouds and hidden in the forest of three-meter cavalry and lances. As the development of the muskets of the Pound Slave Army, the cavalry is gradually not valued, but is a battlefield weapon that the cavalry loves. During wartime, the cavalry is converted into muskets and infantry only needs to insert the tail of the spear with a pointed gun into the soil, and the reins of the horse are tied to the spears. They can devote themselves to fighting without distraction. When pursuing the enemy, they can get on the horse and pull out the spears to pursue quickly, which also creates the feelings of the soldiers of the Pound Slave Army for the spears. Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pound Slave Army, was strict in the army, and he did not allow the soldiers to install any decorations on the weapons.
Only Zhang Ping'an left an exception on the cavalry spear. He accused the soldiers of various units of the cavalry spear to make simple external equipment. Those who have meritorious killing the enemy can tie a hemp rope on the cavalry spear, indicating the soldiers' contribution to killing the enemy. Once this cut was opened, it greatly inspired the sense of honor of the soldiers of the Po Slave Army. Some veterans who participated in the war many times even wrapped the entire cavalry spear rod with hemp rope. These veterans' cavalry spear is simply a history of merit records. They are behind the two main formations.
There is a large array of cavalry in 10,000 people, and they will protect the entire rear of today's army. There is an oversized cavalry formation in the north of the right wing cluster of the Pou Nu Army. This army consists of a densely divided cavalry formation with a thousand-man cavalry whistle as a small formation. The formation is composed of more than 30,000 cavalry leaders Zhang Li and Xu Liang. The center of the formation is 300 crossbow box trucks and 500 ammunition box trucks. They will form a large army to attack westwards and find a breakthrough in the battle from the outer layer of the Turks.
The Pou Nu Army on the central front did not change much. The commander Zhang Ping'an transferred 30,000 reserved Child soldiers into the front. The boy soldiers were led by veterans, and forty thousand people formed a formation of nine miles long and five miles wide. The main general of the left wing was Gu Xin, the chief of staff of the Pou Nu Army. He led Hu Ming, Liu Chong, Qi Heng, and Du Yehe troops to form a formation of three miles outside the camp, and Zhao Guangming's troops, Yan Cheng's troops, and Du Liang's troops stayed in the camp. Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army, asked Chief of Staff Gu Xin to be the chief general of the left wing. It was a helpless move for the two men to be the main general of the left wing. Hu Ming and Liu Chong were all talented in the battlefield, and it was no difficulty to fool Chen Moran, who had just grown up. That day, Zhang Ping'an, who was watching the battle at the coaching platform, saw through the tricks of the two men playing on the battlefield at a glance. He had to use Gu Xin, the "respected" old man, as the main general on the left wing.
On the right wing, there is deputy commander Chen Zheng, who is easy to suppress those powerful generals. At least no general in the northern cluster dares to challenge Chen Zheng. Today, the Possess Army still adopted the right wing main attack tactics and just slightly adjusted the offensive formation. This is the decision made by Commander Zhang Ping'an after thinking hard for a long time. Today, Zhang Ping'an asked someone to place a seat with a backrest in the high-power telescope. He mainly observed the changes in the enemy's military formation. After about half an hour, his somewhat anxious mind was calmed down. The formation of the Ross coalition today was not much different from the previous few days. The outer side was still the Turkic cavalry as the main core was still Ross's 300,000 main force. The only difference is that the Turkic people's fighting spirit was obviously not as good as a few days ago. Zhang Ping'an saw that although the Turkic battle flag was still hanging high, it was a little crooked, and it was no longer as arrogant as before.
The Ross army formation in the center is arranged according to the mountain, and a geese-wing formation seems to fly high upwards, which is particularly conspicuous. The Ross army formation adopts a dense hollow square formation, each wing consists of a double-layer square formation, with about a thousand people up and down each square formation. The formation is narrow in the east and wide in the west, and there are five hollow square formations with inverted character facing the main formation of the Po Slave Army in the east. These five square formations are three in front and two in the back, and Zhang Ping'an also observed in the telescope that the Ross camp is behind the Yan-wing formation, and he estimated that the main camp is about three miles away from the front line formation. In fact, what Zhang Ping'an is most worried about is that the main force of Ross escapes in the battle. As long as the main force of Ross is still in this battle, there is a need to continue. He secretly calculated in his heart that Tian Peng's main force will arrive in the Anqueling area ten days later, and Ross's coach Jijunev received the news three days later.
In other words, the decisive battle between the Pou Nu Army and the Ross coalition must be concluded within ten days. The Pou Nu Army may not necessarily gain much advantage in the protracted war. The reason why Zhang Ping'an did not want to extend the war was mainly due to the climatic factors. The Wutu Tuo Grassland was much colder than Ping'an City. Han people generally did not dare to go out in the late winter of Ping'an City. This Wutu Tuo Ting is still 1,670 miles north of Ping'an City. Ordinary people could not stay here at all. When the Pou Nu Army was exploring the place earlier, they noticed this problem. Zhang Ping'an was also afraid that the Pou Nu Army would be too frostbite and exhausted here. The purpose of Tian Peng Mountain troops to trample the rear of the Ross coalition was nothing more than cutting off the food route of the Ross coalition. It was very difficult for people to survive without food in the Wutu Tuo Ting grassland that was dripping into ice.
In fact, as the commander of the Po Slave Army, Zhang Ping'an, the most concerned thing about the Ross artillery was the Ross artillery. After several wars in the Wututzu Grassland, the remaining artillery of the Ross coalition was only about 300, and if the Nordic coalition was included, there were less than 500 enemy artillery. However, these artillery poses the greatest threat to the Po Slave Army, which naturally attracted Zhang Ping'an to pay great attention. The Ross artillery position was easily found by Zhang Ping'an because the inertial thinking of the Ross formation placed the artillery in the most threatening place. On the mountain of the large formation in the northern part of the Yanfeng Formation, Zhang Ping'an observed seven artillery through a telescope. Affected by the terrain obscuring the line of sight, Zhang Ping'an did not see more artillery in the telescope.
However, Zhang Ping'an could observe 600 ammunition carriages lined up in Shannan. According to the previous combat experience of the Pou Nu Army and the Ross coalition, so many carriages with tarpaulins correspond to at least 300 artillery or more. In contrast, the number of ammunition carriages in the south of the Ross geese wing formation is only more than 100, which means that Ross commander Jijunev judged that the main attack direction of the Pou Nu Army was still northeast. Just as Zhang Ping'an was silently remembering the enemy formation in front of the telescope, a dull and extremely penetrating horn sound came from the northwest of the battlefield. This was the northern cluster of the Pou Nu Army asking for a battle call to the commander Zhang Ping'an, indicating that the entire right-wing army was ready for all attacks and waiting for the order of General Zhang to attack.
But Zhang Ping'an's reaction was a little slow. He stood up from the telescope and patrolled left and right before whispering to Chen Moran beside him: "Start!"
After these whispers, the horn of attack sounded loudly under the command of Chen Moran's command flag, and the sound of drums and cannons sounded, and the attack of the Po Slave Army unfolded in the command of the commander-in-chief Lu Deyin shouted loudly: "Strike!", hundreds of chariots on the left slowly started in turn. The thick chariots of the chariot battalion accelerated slowly, and the wheels crushed the snow and made a roar. The targets pointed at the Turkic cavalry arrayed five miles away. The soldiers of the Ghost Sword Team advancing with the team took neat steps, and their unique and somewhat dull "Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The footsteps were breathtaking. "Woooo!... Boom!" More than one dozen horn hands raised their horns and urged the army to travel. Soon, the sound of the horse's hooves suppressed the sound of horns, like a forest cavalry rifle rising and falling with the horse, like a jungle floating in the wind.
The wheels of the chariots "creaked" over the bodies left by the Turks on the battlefield, making a crisp sound of broken bones. The bones frozen by the cold made the heavy chariots shake left and right, so that half of the body was exposed to observe the marching route had to grab the handrail of the window. The leader of the war elephant camp Qian Zheng Yiqu, who held the order flag in his hand to adjust the offensive line from time to time. Qian Zheng Yiqu is the leader of all the left wing chariots, and he will lead the way for hundreds of chariots behind him. It will cross half a mile
Chapter completed!