Chapter 1099 Encirclement and Suppression of Wanjia Army
At a combat distance of about a hundred feet, the Haihan artillery had an advantage in performance that Wanjiajun could not imagine. Of course, the most important thing is that Wanjiajun did not expect that the Haihan artillery hidden in the Haihan formation had better performance and more lethality. The more powerful artillery was unprepared for the sudden artillery attack. It was almost thrown into disarray the moment Haihan launched the artillery attack.
The first round of artillery shells fired accurately hit the four artillery positions that Wanjiajun tried to set up in front of the formation. Several of the artillery shells hit the ground and slammed into the crowd, knocking out a group of people who had not yet reacted. The bandits tore him into bloody pieces. Those who survived had no time to figure out what happened, so they turned around and ran away in panic, colliding with the battle formation behind them.
Wan Meng reacted quickly. As soon as he saw the chaos in the front army, he immediately ordered the supervising team to step forward to stop it. In this battlefield environment, there is only one way to quickly prevent the collapse of the army, which is to immediately execute the deserters on the spot.
Wanmeng's war supervisors were all equipped with armored swords, and anyone who encountered them turning around and running back would be stabbed in the head. After cutting down more than twenty people, the defeat of Wanjiajun finally stopped.
Of course, this was not just the effect of the supervising team's killing. In fact, the Haihan position only carried out one round of shelling, and Chen Yixin ordered to stop the active attack. This is not because he is benevolent, but because Harugong's cavalry troops have not yet reached the outflank position. If the Wanjia army collapses and flees with a single shelling here, there may be many fish that slip through the net and escape into the nearby mountains and forests, leaving behind Unnecessary hidden dangers. Therefore, as soon as he saw that the opponent's attempt to set up artillery was destroyed by his own side, he immediately stopped and waited for the Wanjia Army to recover from the chaos and organize a second wave of offensive.
Wanmeng was also a little surprised at this moment. The opponent's formation obviously had powerful weapons such as artillery, but why it only fired one round and then nothing happened? Could it be that its killing range is only about a hundred feet like its own mountain-suppressing cannon? Wanjia The army retreated a short distance and it was already out of reach?
There are still a few cannons in Wanjiajun's formation, but they are mounted at the back and their range cannot reach the opponent's position. It's just that when I tried to set up the artillery position, I was already bombarded by the opponent with heavy casualties. At this time, it was impossible to put my head on the chopping block and let the opponent chop it again, so these cannons became decorations. However, Wanmeng dared to mobilize troops to attack again after the previous defeat. The biggest psychological reliance was on the cannons on which Wanjia Army was famous. Now that this method is no longer useful, Wanmeng is also a little hesitant. We must continue to fight to the death with our opponents.
Wan Meng wanted to consult his military advisor, but Pu Xueguang stayed at his stronghold outside the county town and did not follow him into battle. Of course, even if Pu Xueguang was present, it would probably be difficult for him to respond quickly and effectively to such a sudden change of situation. At most, he would suggest Wanmeng to conserve his strength and fight again in the future.
Wanmeng looked at the deathly silent Haihan position to the east, wondering why the opponent didn't take advantage of the advantageous momentum to attack. This opportunity was fleeting, and after he re-adjusted his formation, the advantage would be gone. Wanmeng believed that this was not a command error by the other party, but that he was unable to attack for some reason. However, the reason he thought was very different from the real situation. He believed that the Haihan Army was insufficient in strength and was in order to avoid being surrounded by the Wanjia Army after the attack. Choosing to stand firm.
Of course, this may be a trap set by the Haihan people, but it took the Wanjia Army two days to mobilize men, horses and supplies from the nearby mountainous areas. If they withdraw immediately after being frustrated, Wanmeng's prestige will definitely be greatly damaged. The Wanjia Army can lose this battle, but they cannot lose it by retreating without a fight. However, if they win this battle, the Wanjia Army's gains will be considerable. Wan Meng quickly made the decision to fight the Haihan people again.
Wanmeng reorganized the military formation and ordered to advance again. However, he also thought that the Haihan formation might contain large-scale weapons such as artillery and almost magical firecrackers, so he ordered his men to spread out to avoid the dense crowd. The formation will become a living target for the opponent's artillery fire.
However, Haihan's position seemed to have no reaction to the approach of Wanjiajun and was still dead silent. This made Wanmeng more sure of his previous guess that Haihan was playing tricks because of insufficient troops. Wanmeng saw that the leading troops were no more than fifty or sixty feet away from the opponent's bunker fortifications, so he immediately ordered to speed up the march and at the same time let the cavalry attack, rushing in front of the infantry to attack the opponent's defense line.
"When the enemy gets within thirty meters, open fire freely!" Chen Yixin saw that the opponent had taken serious action, so he issued an order to each company on the defense line.
If the opponent was a regular army, Chen Yixin would not dare to put it at such a close distance before firing. However, Wanjiajun's equipment and combat skills were relatively amateurish, and there was a lack of long-range weapons in the formation. It would be difficult to attack Haihan while charging. The position forms a fire suppression, and placing it close and then firing can effectively increase the hit rate. With the Haihan Army's firing frequency and the trenches, horse barriers and barbed wire fences set up in front of the formation, it would be difficult for the Wanjia Army to find a loophole to exploit.
The Haihan Army had already set up ground markings at different distances outside the defense line to facilitate the defenders to judge the accurate range. When the Wanjiajun cavalry stepped into the thirty-meter marked range, gunfire erupted immediately on the Haihan position, and the artillery that had already been replaced with grape bullets roared again. In just a few seconds, Wanjiajun who was rushing at the front was beaten. Most of the family's soldiers and horses fell down. Fortunately, Wanmeng ordered the team to disperse in advance, otherwise after this shooting, there would not be a single living person left within a few dozen meters in front of the defense line.
This time, Chen Yixin did not order a ceasefire. Guns and artillery took turns firing at the panicked Wanjia army, and the battlefield immediately fell into a howl of ghosts and wolves.
Of course, Wan Meng soon realized that his own collapse was irreversible. This time he did not lead the Supervisory Team to step forward to intercept the defeated troops, because even the Supervisory Team members had already begun to turn around and flee. Wanmeng knew that the situation was over, so he immediately turned around and prepared to flee back to the county seat to meet Pu Xueguang. However, he soon discovered that hundreds of cavalry were rushing towards the Wanjia Army's rear formation in the west, and this cavalry unit was obviously not his own.
"It's over!" Wan Meng couldn't help but have this thought flash in his mind. He picked up the reins and loudly ordered: "Brothers, follow me to the west to break out!"
If you want to escape back to your hometown in the mountains, you must go west, and it is inevitable to have a confrontation with this sudden appearance of the cavalry. Wanmeng had just sent most of the cavalry to charge into the battle, and now there were only about thirty cavalry left with him who could break through with him. He no longer cared about regrouping his troops and retreating calmly. The Haihan people deployed their cavalry behind him to encircle them. It was obvious that they wanted to catch all the Wanjia army in one fell swoop. If they didn't escape now, they would wait until later. Harugong had been staring at this small group of cavalry in the Wanjia Army for a long time on horseback. Although he had not seen the leader of the Wanjia Army, Wan Meng, he relied on common sense to infer that this group of cavalry had not scattered yet, and there were still people among them. Holding the ***, I think I should be surrounded by Wanmeng. Capturing the thief first captures the king, so Harugong naturally focused his attention on this group of people.
The two cavalrymen soon met in the wilderness. The cold-weapon confrontation that Wan Meng expected did not appear. Still more than thirty feet away, he saw the other side's cavalrymen raising their blazing guns. saber. Wanmeng's heart sank, and he immediately thought of the continuous fire blunderbuss mentioned by the people who escaped from the battlefield the day before. Before he could react, the two sides quickly approached. After a flash of fire on the opposite side, the war horse under Wanmeng's crotch He stumbled and fell forward, throwing him off the horse's back, and then threw him heavily to the ground.
"Take this man down!" Harugong had already noticed the armor on Wanmeng's body. This was not a crudely made thing among the people, but the standard armor of the Ming army generals. It was extremely conspicuous among this group of enemy cavalry, and his identity was obvious. Unusual. At that moment, several more cavalrymen tried to come over and rob people, but they were all wounded by the Haihan cavalry's muskets. Upon seeing this, Harugong was sure that this man was an important figure in the Wanjia Army.
After overwhelming the Wanjiajun cavalry, the Haihan cavalry quickly formed a formation, drove away the bandits who tried to escape, and drove them back together. Those who tried to resist either took bullets or were cut down by sabers. It was almost impossible to overcome the control of the cavalry.
At this time, Chen Yixin also asked some infantrymen to attack from defensive positions and participate in the pursuit and encirclement. Although the Wanjia Army still had the upper hand in terms of strength, its military quality was relatively amateurish. After such a defeat, it had lost its command and organization and was completely in disarray. The special operations battalion was quite familiar with dealing with this already one-sided situation. Even then, someone took out a group of ten shackles and began to lock up the surrendered prisoners of war.
Some personnel who tried to resist were severely suppressed. Anyone who tried to resist with force was basically shot at the first opportunity. In the current battlefield environment, there is definitely no way to receive timely treatment after being shot, even if there is no shot. If it hits a vital point, the possibility of death is very high. This is because Chen Yixin issued an order requiring his subordinates to control the battlefield as soon as possible, and Haihan's troops were relatively small. At this point, he could only take the most direct method.
There were almost no new recruits among the troops participating in the Haihan Special War Camp, and they had no psychological barriers to executing such orders. As long as someone did not put down their weapons, they would be shot immediately. Under such ruthless repressive measures, discerning people who realized that their side had no chance of making a comeback decisively gave up resistance and tried to save their lives first.
"Is this... is it over?" Zhang Pucheng, who was watching the battle at the city gate of Fushan County, was still surprised that the ending came so quickly. He originally thought that if the Wanjia Army added thousands of troops, even if they still couldn't defeat the Haihan people, the battle would at least last two or three days or even longer. However, from the time when the Wanjia Army launched their offensive to the time when the Haihan Army was cleaning up the battlefield, In less than half an hour, the Wanjia army was already defeated. Under the pursuit and encirclement of Haihan cavalry, few people could escape from the battlefield. The difference in strength between the two sides during the battle was really too great. Some.
"Awesome! It's really awesome!" Huang Qu was also amazed. Unlike Zhang Pucheng, a layman, he could certainly see that the Haihan people had put in the effort in setting up the formation before the war, and had deployed artillery on the position early. , and sent the cavalry far away, waiting for the Wanjia army to form an attack, and then came over to buy the bottom. They had dug a big hole and waited for the Wanjia army to jump into it. From a strategic perspective, the Wanjia Army was actually eaten to death by the Haihan people before the war started.
Of course, this advantage cannot be achieved by relying on prior arrangements. Huang Qu himself is a soldier, so it is natural to see that Haihan's victory is actually based on his excellent strength. The artillery, cavalry and finally The infantrymen who appeared were all far superior to the Wanjia Army. Even if the two sides switched their battlefield positions, Huang Qu firmly believed that the Haihan side would win in the end.
Zhang Pucheng sighed: "I don't know if Wan Meng, the bandit leader of the Wanjia Army, was captured by Haihan. If Haihan can kill this beast, it will be great news for this county."
Huang Qu responded: "The Haihan people are so well-prepared that Wanmeng may have a hard time escaping, and he may have died in the rebel army. After this battle, it will be difficult for the Wanjia army to recover."
Zhang Pucheng punched the city wall and said angrily: "If I had known that Wan Jiajun was just a useless empty shelf, I shouldn't have succumbed to Wan Mengxu in the first place. If I could have taken his head, it would have been okay." Report your merits to Dengzhou Prefecture and ask for rewards. Alas, you missed the opportunity.”
Huang Qu saw Zhang Pucheng's confident expression and couldn't bear to attack him with words. Of course, the Wanjia Army is not good enough in front of the Haihan people, but if they use force against Fushan County, the limited garrison in the county will probably not be able to last much longer than the performance of the Wanjia Army in front of the Haihan people. go. If you want to defeat more with less like the Haihan people, you must first have that ability.
Huang Qu was thinking about another thing at this time. Now that Haihan has captured the Wanjia Army, there is really no force in Fushan County that can restrain it. If the Haihan people plan to do something next For some things that exceed the rules - such as replacing the county government to control local areas, the county government really has no means to counter it, and even interference is difficult to achieve. Zhang Pucheng is still fantasizing about whether he can repay the favor, but he doesn't know that his current situation is to let Haihan get whatever he wants.
"Master Zhang, we'd better contact the Haihan people as soon as possible to confirm their results...and their next plans." Huang Qu reminded. Although the Haihan people previously sent 500 taels of silver and Huang Qu also received a share, and today the Haihan people destroyed the main force of the Wanjia Army, this was not enough to make him think that Haihan was a good person and was always right. He remains vigilant.
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