Chapter 689
Howitzers are not rocket launchers, and their ability to destroy point targets is terrifying. With a salvo of 105mm howitzers, the opponent's frontmost mortars were shrouded in smoke.
Tuobuhua took a breath of cold air. Is there any fucking way to fight this battle? People are hiding underground and half of their heads are exposed. Who the hell can hit this? The long-barreled artillery is a direct-firing artillery. To deal with this
The trenches are of no use at all.
Are you talking about using rocket launchers?
A rocket launcher shell weighs hundreds of kilograms, and a carriage can only pull two. This time, he only brought a hundred or so. Hundreds of rocket launchers were used up in two salvos.
Besides! The Great Khan stole the rocket launcher from the Liao soldiers. You have the rocket launcher, but it seems like others don’t have it.
Use people to charge hard?
If you stand up and fight against the prone people, the target is so big. Before you can reach the trench, you are put down and laid down.
Climb over? Do you think their artillerymen are dead? The Liao army is most famous for the overwhelming mortar shells it rained down. In recent years, the Mongols have suffered a lot from mortars.
Behind him were the lives of more than 10,000 tribal brothers. Faced with the new tactics of the Liao army, Tuo Buhua felt that his more than 10,000 people were not enough to do anything. His ambitions when he came seemed to be poured cold water on his head.
It's over! It's all over! At this moment, Tuo Buhua was a little disappointed.
"Withdraw troops!" After a brief hesitation, Tuobuhua made the decision. Returning to Hami, he quickly packed up his belongings and fled to the Rakshasa Kingdom. The Mongols had ruled the Rakshasa Kingdom for four hundred years, and as a Mongolian there it was still relatively easy.
What a mess.
Tuobuhua knew that once Xingxingxia was lost, the Western Region would not be able to hold on for long. After seeing the tactics of the Liao soldiers, Tuobuhua was not optimistic about Galdan either.
"But those five hundred brothers haven't withdrawn yet!"
"Do you know why the Ming people dragged those 500 people? They just wanted to drag more of us in. In order to save the 500 people, more than 10,000 of us had to go in. Listen to my order and withdraw our troops. We
Go back to Hami!" After Tuobuhua finished speaking, he whipped his horse and whip to retreat first.
"this……!"
What Tuo Buhua didn't know was that Hami and the others could no longer go back at this time.
Just when Tuobuhua was in contact with the Ming army, a dozen huge airships suddenly appeared in the sky above Hami City. The airships landed ten miles away from the city, and groups of soldiers walked down from them.
These soldiers wore khaki military uniforms and held the Liao army's standard large eight-grain rifle in their hands. However, these people seemed to be somewhat different from the Liao soldiers. They were generally short in stature and spoke in a gibberish manner. The officers also held command knives in their hands.
The defenders of Hami City were immediately stunned!
Yesterday, Tuo Buhua went to retake Xingxing Town and took away almost all the soldiers and horses of Hami. Now, there are only 500 old and weak soldiers stationed in Hami City. A dozen airships landed, a total of one or two thousand people.
Is this battle still going to be fought?
Tokugawa Nobuo held the command knife in his hand and was the first to run out of the airship cargo hold. The huge noise had already made his ears basically deaf. He was never willing to ride in a torturous airship again in his life, even though this thing could fly.
In the distance was the desert, and an oasis-like city in the yellow sand of the desert appeared in front of Tokugawa Nobuo. After taking a look at the castle in the desert oasis, Tokugawa Nobuo waved the command knife in his hand.
This is the goal of his trip!
As the first battle of Japanese soldiers entering the Western Regions, many people wanted to grab this jackpot. In order to fight for the first battle, Tokugawa Nobuo even had to draw swords with several other brothers of the Tokugawa family.
In order to carry more soldiers, there was no room for artillery. Twenty-four hundred Japanese soldiers disembarked from the airship, and Tokugawa Nobuo immediately directed them to attack Hami City.
A dozen Japanese death squads, holding explosive packs in their hands and shouting "on board", rushed madly towards the gate of Hami City.
The first few were shot down, and the people behind picked up the explosive bags and followed. More than a dozen people rushed to the gate of Hami City, and only five people remained.
They lit the explosives, but they didn't even run away. Perhaps they knew that even if they ran, they would be shot dead mercilessly by the Mongolian soldiers on the wall. With such a close distance, it was more difficult to miss than to hit.
In the midst of several high-pitched slogans of "board", the explosive pack exploded. Several Japanese death squads were torn apart along with the city gate of Hami City.
"Charge!" Tokugawa Nobuo drew his command sword and was the first to rush towards Hami City, whose gate was open. The Japanese soldiers behind him swarmed up like a swarm of locusts.
The broken city gate could not stop the Japanese soldiers who looked like tigers and wolves. Soon they stepped over the broken bodies of their own robes and charged madly inside with rifles. The Mongolian defenders on the city wall were still able to shoot at them with their guns at the beginning.
They opened fire, but after seeing that several people around them were killed, they only dared to hide on the tower and refused to come down.
Tokugawa Nobuo led his men into the city. The Japanese soldiers shot at people when they saw them and set fire to houses when they saw them.
Hami is one of the few cities in the Western Region, and it is also a gathering place for Mongolian caravans. Only with the caravans can there be restaurants and tea shops, those contiguous warehouses, and singing and dancing prostitutes. If there were not these caravans, perhaps the city of Hami
Just a lot of tents.
Li Xiao had an agreement with the Japanese people, that is, the things they grabbed after entering the city would be divided in half. Of course, the Japanese people had to pay back the money for the weapons and divide them in half.
After the Japanese people rushed into Hami, the first thing they did was not to chase down the stubborn enemy, but to rob them from house to house. No matter you were a Rakshasa with lustful eyes, a Mongolian with brown eyes, or an Indian with a black head!
As long as you are an individual, you cannot escape the robbery.
However, there are exceptions. If you are from the Ming Dynasty, you can escape the looting of the Japanese. Not only that, the Japanese will respectfully place a red flag at the door of the family to attract men. The Japanese soldiers behind will no longer
I will not disturb this family.
Faced with such a catastrophe, the Mongolians in Hami City fled frantically. Mongolians are born knights, and there are no Mongolians who can't ride horses. These people gave up their wives and children, and even killed their own siblings in order to survive.
Just to get the fastest horse.
The moment the city gate was blown open, Hami City turned into a hell on earth. No one expected that after more than a thousand years, the military peak of the Central Plains Dynasty would come here again.
Those who left Hami on horseback headed west without looking back. Only by getting to the Ili Valley as soon as possible would they be safe. Or maybe the Ili Valley was not safe either.
Just as they were galloping with all their strength on their horses, they suddenly saw a black line appear on the horizon. As the distance got closer, the black line gradually became clearer.
Cavalry! There are tens of thousands of cavalry in the overwhelming force.
The Mongolians on horseback immediately cheered. At this time, the cavalry coming from the west could only be the cavalry of Geldan Khan. When they saw their own army, all the Mongolians showed unspeakable excitement.
Some who were overly excited immediately urged their horses to gallop over, shouting "ooh" and "ooh" as they ran.
The formation of tens of thousands of cavalry seemed to be able to fill the grassland. The Mongols became more and more excited as they ran. They had already seen the compatriots wearing Mongolian leather robes in the team. There were so many tough cavalry, and there was no need to be afraid of those short bow-legged ones.
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Chapter completed!