Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 82

In the direction of Hancundu, Liang Shou, the third brigade of the Denghai Town Division, was responsible for the first attack.

Since the beachhead on the west bank was occupied by our army’s first soldiers, the position was expanded by more than 300 steps in depth.

Although the shotgun has a fairly good lethality at a distance of 400 meters, but when the shotgun is shot at a distance of 400 meters, the range of the conical barrage will cause serious accidental injury to the generals on the west bank, and it is forbidden to use it. . In the artillery positions on the two flanks of the east bank of Hancundu, the 80 light and heavy artillery pieces that had been deployed before the war were alternately shooting solid artillery shells at the enemy charging array at an oblique angle.

The muzzle of the gun spewed out a flamboyant flame, and the cannonball swept across the Fenghe River, swept across the low sky covered by the night, and shrieked sharply, tearing apart the enemy charge array from the side and front wings…

In Dengzhou, Tong Huacheng only saw Huaidong shelling the warships of the Dengzhou navy and the city walls, arrow towers and other buildings of the Dengzhou Walled City, but did not personally observe the Huaidong Army shelling the charging array in the field. .

Before the war, the test firing of the heavy artillery that first entered the east bank of the Fenghe River was actually under the control of the Beiyan soldiers and horses. It was impossible to send scouts to infiltrate too deep. distance to determine the range of the reference object. In fact, in an unobstructed plain area, in the face of the enemy’s sprinting men and horses, before the explosive projectile can be put into practical use, the shooting power of the projectile fired at a low angle is far higher than that of the projectile.

The sound of galloping horses’ hooves was like a violent shower in my ears, and the mud that the hoofs ripped hit my face, causing pain. Tong Huacheng followed the left wing forward, mainly wearing armor and light cavalry, and the blade stabbing across the chest was shining like a river.

The sound was so loud that it seemed that only his own breathing could be heard, but the whistling shells were so obvious – rubbing his body, and being scorched by the scorching wind, Tong Huacheng turned his head and looked back in horror. , I saw seven or eight riders slipping down from the left side…

Tong Huacheng paled in astonishment, poked his horse’s head lightly, left the charge formation, slanted to a high ground on the flank, restrained the reins and looked diagonally behind, and saw that on the battlefield just covered by Huaidong artillery, at least there were nearly a hundred horsemen. Either dead or disabled, they are shot down and dismounted, losing their combat power.

Tong Huacheng’s hand holding the reins trembled slightly, although the time between the shelling was not short enough to make the cavalry charge to the front of the Huaidong Army and avoid the second shelling of the Huaidong Army with close combat, but the first sprint was not enough. The cavalry array of the Huaidong Army killed nearly one-tenth of the people and horses from the left and right front wings of the Huaidong Army’s artillery at one time. Such lethality may not be too amazing!

In fact, before the war, Tong Huacheng reminded Na Hewugu to send a cavalry to charge, start the troops in a scattered array, and sprint to the front of the enemy line to gather to increase the impact. The purpose is to prevent the Huaidong artillery from attacking the dense array. Lethality, when it comes to war, I still underestimate the power of seventy or eighty artillery salvos…

In the daytime, such a large casualty caused by a single shelling coverage will seriously affect the determination of other generals to attack the enemy line, but the night will cover up more bloody, and the cavalry who charged through the shelling coverage area did not Seriously observed the casualties behind him, and with the momentum of the raging arrows, and like a raging wave, they fiercely beat the Huaidong army array that entered the west bank of the Fenghe River, and suddenly knives and shields, arrows and spears, blood and flesh. In the attack, in the roar, although people are constantly falling from horses, but the blood of the enemy and us is boiling, and they are caught in an endless **** battle…

Before the war, Beiyan soldiers and horses had anticipated the brutality of this battle, and knew that only a battle formation made of blood and flesh could stop the Huaidong Army from advancing westward.

Without waiting for the first drawn cavalry to be victorious, the second charge formation of the Yan army, consisting of more than 1,800 cavalry in three formations, flew into the dust; The teeth that opened their mouths floated in the night like tiny visible waves.

Tong Huacheng dragged the huqi off the horse’s back, pressed it firmly on the ground, and listened to the sound of cannonballs roaring overhead. Pierced through a body of flesh and blood.

Tong Huacheng watched helplessly as a cannonball shot from the front left corner of the charging array and shot out from the rear right corner. With an irresistible might, it smashed a giant tree apart, and at least thirteen or four flesh-and-blood bodies were given to him. The cannonballs shot through the holes; sometimes the cannonballs were clearly seen hitting the ground, but they bounced back like a demon and continued to rampage in the array.

Fortunately, on the sprinting battlefield two or three miles away from the river bank, the entire forward cavalry formation is relatively scattered, and there are a considerable number of artillery shells firing angles, which are not very ideal: either high, passing by; or low, attacking in advance. ground, and no ricochet formed. But that’s it, on the battlefield covered by Huaidong artillery, another 140 or 50 horses were added to the fallen, dead or disabled people…

Night has advantages and disadvantages; Tong Huacheng had to be grateful for the benefits of night.

Most of the cavalry that had charged from the area covered by Huaidong artillery could not see the heavy casualties left behind in the darkness. At close range, he raised his horse speed again and again, and attacked the temporary defense line of the Huaidong Army on the west bank with a deadly attitude.

Yan Hu’s cavalry generals, who were famous for their martial arts, used horse lances and lances as weapons, and waved them from left to right. The cast iron shield chariots and spear chariots weighing more than several hundred kilograms were easily overturned in front of them, and even given to them. Roll over. These Yanhu generals, who were not afraid of life and death, faced the spears assassinated by the Huaidong Army, even though their bodies were stabbed with dozens of blood holes, they still did not forget to fight forward when they were dying, wanting to kill those who came later. The big gap, the roar is as loud as thunder…

Although the Huaidong Army’s infantry was known for its tight defense, the temporary front on the west bank was only after midnight. After all, it could not be said that the defense was tight, and Hu Qi, regardless of casualties, desperately stimulated the horse’s speed at close range, and sprinted desperately. , or to cause strong pressure and casualties to the Huaidong Army entering the West Bank.

Hu Qi’s goal is very clear, that is to break through the Huaidong Army’s defenses on the west bank, destroy the trestle, and then encircle and wipe out the Huaidong Army generals on the west bank, and then retreat, waiting for the Huaidong Army to build a bridge to cross the river for the second time…

Beiyan intends to use this pure **** battle of blood for flesh and blood to weaken the Huaidong army’s vigor in the west, and achieve the purpose of preserving the city of Yanjing, preserving the nation, and restoring the country’s fortunes.

The tactics of the Yanhu cavalry were also very simple and rude. Since attacking from the flanks would be threatened by artillery and heavy crossbows on the east bank, they could only choose the simplest gouge tactics from the front, and attack the Huaidong Army’s defense line on the west bank one after another. .

The Huaidong Army’s defense line on the west bank was less than 300 paces deep. Although the resistance was extremely tenacious. The front was blocked by spears, crossbows, and chariots, but it couldn’t stand Hu Qi’s life-threatening gouges again and again. Hu did not count the casualties in front of the front, also called Huaidong Army generals dying or dying under the iron hooves, and even many wounded soldiers did not have time to withdraw to the flanks, so they watched the defense line pierced by Hu Qi, and called the trestle bridge exposed to Hu Qi. Under the iron hoof…

The Yanhu cavalry unloaded the prepared bundles of firewood soaked in grease from their horses, threw them on the bridgehead of the trestle bridge, and ignited the fire, making the light on both sides of the Fenghe River even brighter. However, in the next moment, the exposed fire was not the floating boat trestle bridge imagined by Yan Bing, but three black iron beam bridges.

The iron girder bridge is composed of a section of box-cage-shaped bridge body, lying on the Fenghe River. The bridge is temporarily supported by a bridge car, standing in the turbulent current. At this time, someone came to understand a little, why did they see a few trench bridge vehicles in the Huaidong Army before night, and their wheels looked extraordinarily tall? It turned out to be pushed into the center of the river and used as a bridge pile.

General Yanhu couldn’t imagine how these three iron girder bridges were built, but the bridges were mainly composed of I-shaped or ruler-shaped iron beams – those Yanhu Lishi with giant axes ready to chop iron cables, watching The thick iron beams reflected by the firelight, no matter how sharp the giant axe that can cut the iron cables, is unable to destroy the bridge body crisscrossed by the iron beams in a short period of time with clumsy chopping…

The Tieliang Bridge could not be destroyed by arson, let alone being slashed by swords and axes. Seeing that the bridge could not be destroyed, Yan Qi wanted to rush across and attack the east bank to kill the Huaidong Army’s main formation on the east bank, but at this time they had to face Huai. The Eastern Army deployed a shotgun blockade of eight artillery pieces on the banks of the river.

The lead shot hit the iron beam, and there was a roar of metal, but more lead shot ruthlessly penetrated into the body, rolled in the body, and broke the flesh and blood to open large rotten holes.

The solid bullet is still a linear shot, and the possibility of the angle deviation of the shell is also very high. At a short distance, the shot directly covers one surface and shoots the enemy in pieces to the ground. The Huaidong Army, which had penetrated the defense line on the west bank, did not collapse, but retreated to the two flanks before the crazy attack of the enemy cavalry, in order to reduce the huge pressure on the defense line and reduce unnecessary casualties. Counterattack from both flanks…

This kind of tactic, the Denghai Town Division has repeatedly rehearsed dozens of times, seized the opportunity to shoot the enemy cavalry in pieces, and cut off more than a thousand enemy cavalry from the flank in one fell swoop…

Facing the slaughter on the west bank, the Yan cavalry army did not retreat, and the third cavalry passed through the area covered by the artillery at a rapid speed and came up. In the face of such a fierce impact from the Yanhu cavalry, Chen Zhu had to send the second brigade to the west bank in advance, so that the third brigade with great casualties was sent to the two flanks to disperse…

Compared with the **** fight in the Hancundu battlefield~www.mtlnovel.com~, the intensity of the fighting in the other three places was much less intense. At these river crossing points, in order to avoid the troops entering the west bank from piercing the defense line, and the pressure is too great, they will block the defense line with war crossbows, and the troops and horses that help the west bank will withdraw from the pontoon bridge, allowing the enemy cavalry to rush forward. Opportunity to set fire to the pontoon trestle.

Once the floating boat trestle catches fire, or the iron rope is cut off by the giant axe, the enemy cavalry will quickly gallop away from the river bank, not giving the Huaidong artillery more chances to shoot, and the battle will be interrupted for a period of time, giving both sides a chance to rest.

Only the **** fight on the battlefield of Han Cundu was so intense that it exceeded the pre-judgment of the main generals of both sides.

The existence of Tieliang Bridge made the Huaidong Army’s march from Hancundu to the west bank not interrupted by the charging of enemy cavalry; and the gap between the charging of enemy cavalry was a good opportunity for Huaidong Army to rectify and strengthen the defense line on the western front.

It was just that the enemy also realized that the Huaidong Army that entered the west bank of Hancundu could not be defeated, and that the Huaidong Army that entered the west bank of Hancundu could not be prevented from continuing to expand in depth. In the end, their defense line on the west bank of the Fenghe River would cease to exist. , and from Fenghe to the west to the bottom of Yanjing City, they will not have a more advantageous terrain than Fenghe to hinder the westward advance of Huaidong Army, which means that the imperial capital of Beiyan cannot be preserved in front of them…

General Hu Yan was also insane. Manic and furious, he continued to cross the battlefield to fill up the elite fighting force. Regardless of casualties, he would use his flesh and blood to block the westward march of the Huaidong army.

The battle at Hancundu did not stop until the afternoon of the next day. Gao Zongting, Yang Yihang, Song Shixing and others had to make an impromptu decision to transfer an elite brigade from Han Caizhi and Hu Qiaoguan to strengthen the front in the direction of Hancundu. I ordered Han Caizhi and Hu Qiaoguan to rush to the west bank of Fenghe River from both wings with a firm attitude… My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter