Chapter 961: The wind breaks the giant tree, the grass is soft and strong (twenty-seven)
The battle to annihilate the Turkic cavalry of the Prominent parts of the Pound Army was not fierce, and it can even be described as one-sided combat. The Turkic cavalry was attacked in three directions and lacked effective long-range attack weapons, so the failure of the Turkic cavalry became inevitable. The real effective resistance of the Pound Army came from the Ross Army formation in the south. Huang Wei's five thousand cavalry converted into infantry and attacked with the muss gun formation. Huang Wei's army adopted a 500-man phalanx, using the Pin-character infantry phalanx to launch a long-range shooting with the enemy. Although the range of the Pound Army's mussels was long-range, the Ross mussels were not fire sticks. This kind of shooting not only required gritting teeth to endure huge casualties, but also had to compete with the fighting will of both sides. About 60% of the mussel soldiers in the Ross Army formation, and the formation was mixed with spearmen and shield soldiers.
The attacking army formation of the Po Slave Army was almost all musket soldiers, and the Po Slave Army had the absolute advantage in firepower. The scene of shooting death on the battlefield was very terrifying. The rain of metal bullets swept across the opposite side kept killing and injuring the brothers around him. This scene was enough to make the weak-willed ones collapse. The commander of the Po Slave Army was Lin Zhensheng, the assistant commander of Huang Wei's army. Seeing hundreds of brothers sprinkled blood on the battlefield, he immediately changed the tactics. The assistant commander Lin Zhensheng ordered that the cover shooting tactics should be carried out at the farthest range of the musket guns and covered the enemy formation with dense musket lead bullets. The tactics of the Po Slave Army immediately showed results. The shield hands in the front row of the Ross Army formation fell down and the musket soldiers also suffered many casualties and injuries. The Ross Musket soldiers are technically corpses, and they cannot exert their power without long-term training.
Ross musketeers make low-level mistakes in fierce environments on the battlefield. The amount of loading is related to the mood of the musketeers during battle. Ross musketeers will also have too much loading to cause a blowout. More experienced veterans choose to reduce the loading method to avoid the blowout from hurting themselves. This also causes the range of the musketeers in the hands of Ross musketeers to weaken. According to normal musketeers can hit seventy feet, but it is very difficult to hit sixty feet now. On the contrary, there is no problem with the integrated ammunition of the Blade Slade Army. The Blade Slade Slade Musketeers are always the best range of eighty feet at any time. Therefore, when both sides shoot at the same time, the Blade Slade Musketeers have better range than the Ross musketeers in range.
The Poseidon Army, which is a three-wheeled musket gun covering the fire, almost half of the Ross musket soldiers were removed. The Ross musket soldiers on the Ross were vulnerable to the penetration of lead bullets. The Ross musket soldiers who fell to the ground were wailing and complained about the gap in the firearms. What's more important is that the Ross musket soldiers were seriously injured or died on the battlefield, and soldiers from other branches of the troops could hardly replace them. The soldiers who had not received strict training did not understand the order of firearms loading, which also caused the situation where the Ross military formation was suppressed by the Poseidon Army musket gun formation. After the Poseidon Army musket gun formation carried out the fifth round of volleys, the Ross could no longer bear the endless casualties. Their will to fight was ruthlessly defeated, and evacuating amid the sound of war drums was also a good choice.
Seeing the Ross who were supporting the battlefield, the Turkic cavalry who chose to break through had to endure the attack of the three-sided musket guns of the Po Nu Army. The Turkic cavalry that was hit by the metal storm with a circular death barrier area on the periphery was so in tears that they wanted to continue to charge. Not only were the bodies of the deadly corpses in front of them, but they also had to break through the deadly death storm. Seeing a large circle of compatriots who were twitching in the blood on the periphery waiting for death, the Turkic cavalry was heartbroken. They chose to dismount and surrender under the leadership of the Khan of the main headquarters. The Turkic cavalry who rushed to the back of the Po Nu Army could not run far. Under the attack of lead guns and bullets on both sides of the Po Nu Army, they almost all fell in the snow and survived.
The showdown between Zhao Guangming's Chariot Battalion and the Ross main formation also came to an end at this time. As the artillery of the Ross was removed by Yang's sister's artillery team, the Ross people who had lost long-range firepower support had less courage to continue fighting. In addition, the left wing was broken by the Possess Army. After thousands of corpses were left behind, the Ross people fled to the south. Now the geese-wing formation set up by the Ross people broke the solid arms of the left wing, and the main formation in the middle retreated again. The gathered Ross army formation shrank into five round formations, and then went east and west to the main camp of the headquarters. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, the Possess Army's baggage camp began to arrange cold-proof tents behind the control line, and one cooking box cart after another that was emitting smoke and smelled meat entered the front line, bringing steaming food to the brothers who had fought for a day.
Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Slave Army who had been poured on the command platform for a cold wind, also walked down the stairs to the commander's tent for dinner. The General Staff Chen Moran arranged the meal while handing the latest military reports from each department to Zhang Dama. Although he was exhausted, Zhang Ping'an had to cheer up and review it. Soon, Chief of Staff Gu Xin came back from the front line and he wanted to discuss the war on the next day with Zhang Ping'an. The battle reports of each department were urgent. Zhang Ping'an needed to reply one by one. In fact, he knew very well that these so-called urgent reports were all literary reports that wanted to fight materials. Zhang Ping'an's annotations to the literary newspapers were also very simple. He usually commented on a "Ke" or "I know" in the upper left of the literary newspaper. However, Zhang Li, the commander of the Eagle Camp, had a little more words to criticize. The Chief of Staff Gu Xin sat at another desk to review the accumulated military newspapers from various places.
While commenting on Zhang Li's military newspaper, Zhang Ping'an smiled and said to Gu Xin: "Zhang Li's hob meat is getting more and more stable. He doesn't have much chance to open the way. I think Zhang Li's suggestion is good, so let the deputy coach Chen Zheng arrange it!"
Gu Xin ignored Zhang Ping'an's words, and he dealt with the Chinese newspaper. Under Chen Moran's arrangement, Zhang Boss brought the dinner in with a special chef Ma Wu. They all ate very fast and discussed the deployment of tomorrow's combat at the dinner table. In fact, the formation of the Ross people had collapsed in one battle today. The five round formations set up by the Ross people formed a long snake formation, and there were many loopholes in it. Just break the soft abdomen in the middle and the entire long snake formation would collapse. After the three of them finished the meal, with the help of Sun Xigui, the guards, completed the sand table deduction of the battle, and Chen Moran wrote the key points based on the results. After Zhang Ping'an and Chief of Staff Gu Xin read the key points, Chen Moran quickly ran to the staff to refine the combat orders.
Before waiting for the staff to come up with specific plans, Zhang Ping'an rarely has time to talk to Gu Xin about the matter. Gu Xin took a copy of the literary report sent by Wu Tianxing: "The General Wu Duluo sent someone to send him a message. The decisive battle has begun. I hope Wu Tianxing's troops will send scouts to strengthen inspections. Wu Tianxing's newspaper said that the scouts of the department did not see a single enemy for several months in a row, and hoped that the department would only leave one unit to help the rest of the troops to withdraw back to Ping'an City for rest."
After listening to Gu Xin's story, Zhang Ping'an, who was holding a tea bowl, lightly plucking the floating tea with the bowl cover, nodded slightly. The terrain of the Selen River Basin stationed by Wu Tianxing's troops was dangerous, and it was indeed a good idea to stop the Ross coalition's small-scale tentative attack. Now the Ross coalition has no strength to continue attacking. As long as he, the commander, does not make any major mistakes, there is almost no possibility of a Ross people turning around in this battle. Letting a strong battle camp remain on the front line of the Selen River is indeed a waste of troops. It is just that Wu Tianxing's suggestion is too early, and Zhang Ping'an has to look at the battle situation in the next few days before talking about Wu Tianxing's affairs. The two of them talked about the gossip of destroying the slave city. Since the main force of the slave army arrived at the Wututu Grassland, Zhang Ping'an has revised many local rules.
In the past, the military post was not allowed to leave the family letter, but hundreds of thousands of people were away from home and how could they not worry about the family affairs behind them? For this reason, Zhang Ping'an ordered the amendment of the Regulations of the Pou Slave Army, allowing the soldiers of the Pou Slave Army to write letters and contact their families. Zhang Ping'an's move was unanimously praised by the Pou Slave Army. In addition to the family letters, the Pou Slave Army can also carry some small packages. Because of this, Zhang Ping'an talked with Gu Xin and the latest gossip news about Pou Slave City and Ping'an City. Once Zhang Ping'an was idle, he was a person who liked association. From the generals to the taking of concubines to the widow's door, he was not interested in any of them. Inadvertently, Gu Xin said: "The child Shangde is quite good at controlling Rongcheng. A large group of weak scholars surrounded him to make suggestions. Even Yang Zhizheng praised Shangde for his achievements in his life!"
I don't know what Gu Xin's words meant, but at least he expressed his own opinion, that is, the fact that there were too many literati around Zhang Shangde was worried about him. Zhang Ping'an looked up at Gu Xin and smiled bitterly. He had been unable to fight his son Zhang Shangde. Only then did Zhang Ping'an realize how painful the inner entanglement of Emperor Gaozu of Tang Li Yuan was. He could not suppress the credit and shock the master's son Li Shimin, causing the Xuanwu Sect Incident to ruin each other and he was forced to abdicate. Zhang Ping'an originally wanted to suppress Zhang Shangde and stand up for Zhang Shangwu, but if he really started, he was a little afraid. The cunning Zhang Ping'an thought of it was very terrible when he thought about it. His eyes were unconsciously showing a fierce light like a wolve in his silence.
Zhang Ping'an, who was very good at disguising, quickly restrained himself and turned the topic to the current war. Fortunately, the staff of the General Staff made the attack strategy of each department, and Gu Xin and Zhang Ping'an were physically and mentally involved in tomorrow's war arrangements. Zhang Ping'an, who signed the order, asked Gu Xin to go back to sleep. He sent Sun Xigui to find Qu Guozheng, the commander of the Intelligence Department, and Yu Xingke, the deputy commander of the Investigation Department, on the front line. Soon, the two arrived at the Zheng's tent, and Zhang Ping'an ordered the martial law and let Sun Xigui leave. Seeing that there were no outsiders in the tent, Zhang Ping'an asked Qu Guozheng softly: "Guozheng, are you hiding something from me?"
"The general is as keen as a wise man, but there are some things that are difficult to say in the tense war!" Qu Guozheng did not deny anything that was hiding from Marshal Zhang. He nodded helplessly and replied.
Qu Guozheng took out a stack of newspapers from his arms, and glanced at Yu Xingke, the detective office, and said: "Yu Xietong, there are no outsiders today. If Marshal Zhang said what he said tonight, your life will be in danger!"
"Look at how serious you are, what's so great about it? Yu Xingke is also an old man from our investigation office. He is not very thoughtful but very meticulous. Over the years, this kid has been deeply educated and is considered a young and mature person. Since I called you all to discuss matters, there is nothing to hide. Let's say, what's there to hide from me?" Zhang Ping'an pulled and beat him, comforting Yu Kexing, while reminding him to be a person with a tight mouth.
"The Grand Marshal, the subordinates believe that there are hidden dangers in the slave army, and maybe someone wants to rebel!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!