Chapter 1362
The last fight
Chapter 1362
Gao Qiaonan knew that there must be a large number of cavalry in the city, and what he wanted to do was try to force these cavalry out, and then use long-range firepower to finish them off.Therefore, he was not in a hurry to launch a general attack on the fortress, but slowly exerted pressure, hoping to disrupt the position of the defenders in the city.Judging from the opponent's response to sending cavalry out of the city to make an assault, such oppressive tactics have indeed achieved certain results.The Hou Jin army obviously had no skills to deal with the powerful infantry of the Haihant Battalion, and they refused to give up this fortress, so they would naturally fall into a dilemma.
"Battalion Commander, since the Houjin army can't hold on, will they seal the gate with stones from the city?" The staff officer standing behind Gao Qiaonan raised a possibility.If the Hou Jin army sealed the city gate, it would be difficult for Haihan's frontal artillery attack to be effective. Even if these small-caliber artillery bombarded for several days and nights, it would be difficult to completely collapse the city wall.
Gao Qiaonan shook his head and said: "They probably didn't try so hard. Sealing the city gate is equivalent to cutting off a way out. This city only has two gates, the north and the south. If the south is sealed, then if the north is also blocked, the people in the city will be blocked." The cavalry has nothing to do but wait to die."
Gao Qiaonan still had a subtext that he didn't say, if the commander of the opponent is really so stupid, then the next thing will be easy to handle.The only thing Hai Han feared was the maneuverability of the Golden Cavalry. If the opponent stuck to the castle and gave up attacking, it would be tantamount to self-mutilation.Step by step, even if the opponent has a castle to defend, it is much easier for the Haihan army to deal with than cavalry.
Although the Special Operations Battalion had already won two battles in a row with the Houjin Cavalry, Takahashi Nan still did not dare to take it lightly. There are also Houjin ambush soldiers, and at the same time, they are also on guard against the Houjin cavalry in the city who will come out from the north gate and attack.
After making a perfect response, the artillery continued to launch shelling at the south gate of Zhongzuo City at a stable frequency.Although the shells still couldn't penetrate the city gate, the damage caused by each shelling to the city gate was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.The cracks on the door gradually expanded with the shelling, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before they were shattered.
Before the battle, Takahashi Minami didn't quite understand why the higher-ups didn't arrange heavy siege artillery in this part of the battle. Obviously, it didn't take so much effort to blast open the city gate.At first, he thought it might be due to the inconvenience of transportation and supplies, but it was only on the battlefield that he realized that this was actually closely related to Haihan's combat purpose.If heavy siege guns are used and the city gates are destroyed with one shot, the Houjin army in the city will inevitably lose their fighting spirit and disperse in a rush. planned.Although the use of small-caliber artillery requires more work, it has the effect of boiling frogs in warm water, making the opponent afraid that the city gate will be broken, but also reluctant to give up resistance. In this difficult situation, they lost the last chance to escape. good time.
The Houjin army in the city is currently in such a situation. If at the beginning of the war, Mutbu chose to let the best of the city go out and form a group to attack the advancing Haihan army formation, it may not be impossible. The power of a battle.Or, after realizing the difference in strength between the two sides, decisively sealing the south gate, leaving only a small number of infantry to stand firm in the city, and letting the cavalry go out of the city to support it is also a defensive plan.But because of the heavy losses in the previous confrontation, Mutbu felt fear, and chose to let all the remaining cavalry troops stay in the city, which happened to take advantage of the opponent's wishes.
Although Mutbu's hesitation was not too long, in fact, the Haihan army outside the city had already calmly deployed, and it was a bit late to respond now.The order he received was to stick to this place, so he didn't dare to give up the center left city, and the countermeasure he chose in the end had already fallen into the prediction of the Haihan army.
This time, Mutbu handed over the important task of city defense to his deputy, Doro, who led 500 people to stay in the city, while he himself led most of the remaining cavalry out of the city from the north gate, and then circled to the south of the city. Then fight with the Haihan army.Doing so was basically a desperate move. If the cavalry were defeated again, it would be basically impossible for the [-] infantry left behind in the city and other post-Jin civilians who had no combat effectiveness to escape from Zhongzuosuo City.
Of course, if he is defeated in the end, even if he can escape here by himself, it will be difficult for him to explain to his superiors after returning to the Golden State Guard City in the north, and he will probably be charged with "poor command". It may even affect Mutbu's tribe, so he must fight to the death on the battlefield, trying to repel Haihan's offensive.
"Doro, if I die in battle, try to take this dagger back for me and give it to my family." Mutbu untied a dagger from his waist and handed it to his deputy. He said solemnly: "My family The property shall be divided equally between the elder son and the younger son."
Mutbu's dagger is nothing special, it's just a sharp knife with horns. It has neither gem inlays nor gold and silver decorations on it. It is just a portable weapon that has followed him for many years.But he made such a commission, which already showed that he was extremely pessimistic about the current battle situation, and at the same time, he also expressed his determination to fight to the death to his deputy.Another purpose is to let Doro bring back the deeds of his heroic death in case of death in battle, so that at least he can change his family and tribe's life without being implicated.
Doro didn't dissuade Mutbu, but just took the dagger from him with a serious face.Slowly insert it into your belt.As a deputy, he understands the meaning of Mutbu's entrustment, which is actually a gold medal for avoiding death for him.If Mutbu died in battle outside the city, then in order to fulfill this commission, he must leave Lushunkou alive, so that he would not have to defend the city on the left.But this is equivalent to Mutbu entrusting his family and tribe to him, and this burden is not much easier than fighting to the death on the battlefield.
After the two completed the handover, they didn't dare to delay any longer.Doro led people to temporarily reinforce the crumbling city gate, while Mutbu hurriedly led the remaining hundreds of cavalry in the city out of the city from the north gate.
However, at this time, the Haihan cavalry's reconnaissance range has also included the north gate of Zhongzuo City. As soon as Mutbu led the team out of the city gate, he was spotted by the nearby Haihan scouts. A flare shot into the air.The signal bomb exploded after flying more than ten feet into the air, and the orange-red fireworks could be clearly seen from several kilometers away.
"Sure enough, he slipped out from the north!" Gao Qiaonan got the news quickly, and immediately adjusted the deployment accordingly.
When the pyrotechnic flare exploded in the air, Mutbu, who had just left the city, naturally saw it too.Although there were only a few Haihan cavalry wandering in the distance in his vision, he knew that this meant that his whereabouts and intentions had been exposed. The Haihan cavalry used the fireworks signal to send the news back to the position in the south of the city. The raid was completely hopeless.
"I didn't expect that this battle would be so passive!" Muteb was also quite helpless about the current battle situation. He thought that there was no problem with his response from the beginning of the battle, but the opponent's preparations were obviously more adequate. That terrible The infantry musket formation tactic is simply specially set up for the massacre of the Golden Cavalry.
Just now, after thinking for so long in the city, although Mutbu still couldn’t figure out why the Haihan musket could be fired continuously without reloading, he at least wanted to understand one thing. However, the sudden change of tactics this time is probably just to lure out the cavalry in the city and kill them cleanly.If it hadn't been for the recent addition of hundreds of cavalry, the consumption of the first two battles alone had indeed completely wiped out the cavalry troops deployed in Zhongzuo City in the past.
However, Haihan changed his previous combat strategy, preferring to fight head-on and destroy the rear golden cavalry. In Mutebu's view, there is only one reason for this kind of performance, that is, the Haihan people are not satisfied with more than a year of small troubles. , but is preparing to officially launch an offensive on the Lushunkou area of the Liaodong Peninsula, and plans to stop and take root here.
This is not good news for Hou Jin. After Haihan took root in Shandong, it has already caused a lot of trouble for Hou Jin. Well, I'm afraid it won't take too long for the ownership of Lushunkou to change hands.
Mutbu thought that even if the Haihan people wanted to do something about Lushunkou, they would probably wait until after the beginning of spring. He still had a few months to slowly make some arrangements here, but he didn't expect Haihan to rush At this time before winter, a decisive offensive was launched.Now it is definitely too late to ask for help from Jinzhou Wei. There are hundreds of miles to Jinzhou Wei, and it is difficult for a fast horse to go back and forth in a day.And looking at the non-stop offensive of the Haihan army, it is obvious that they do not intend to let this battle continue until nightfall.
Mutbu knew that Zhongzuo City would never survive until the reinforcements arrived, so he simply didn't have any hope for it. He led the army out of the city to meet the Haihan army, and he only planned to use the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and concentrate his resources The mobile power to make a last-ditch effort.It's just that as soon as he left the city, the enemy had already grasped his whereabouts. I'm afraid that the chance of winning this battle will drop by several percent.
But even so, Mutbu can only bite the bullet when it comes to guarding the soil.He ignored the Haihan cavalry slowly gathering in the distance, but led the team around the city to the south.He knew very well that there was nothing he could do with the Haihan cavalry at the moment, and the opponent did not intend to use the cavalry as the main force in the battle. It was obviously only used to guard the periphery and clean up the battlefield. Basically, there was no need to expect to be able to fight the opponent's cavalry head-on. There is a wave.But if his troops were in trouble, he knew that these Haihan cavalry would pounce on them like hungry wolves, just as they hunted and killed those scattered post-golden cavalry survivors before, killing them quickly and ruthlessly.
Soon Mutbu saw the Haihan position in the south of the city, and several artillery pieces were in the middle of the position, firing at the city gate one after another.On the periphery of the artillery position is a gun formation formed by Haihan infantry armed with live ammunition.This formation is much denser than the formation used to lure the enemy when the Haihan army marched towards the center left city, and it has basically returned to the linear formation that the Haihan army used to use before.Mutbu thought of the firepower output density shown by the opponent in the previous battle, and he really didn't have much confidence in the charge he was about to launch.
But he had no choice. If the Haihan army invaded Zhongzuo City, it would also mean the failure of Houjin in this area, so he might as well fight hard and try to kill more enemies.
Mutbu drew out his saber and raised it high above his head, and the hundreds of horsemen and horses behind him also immediately raised their weapons to show their momentum.Mutbu swung his saber forward, making a slashing gesture. Seeing this, the cavalry under his command immediately urged their horses forward and began to accelerate towards Haihan's position.
These hundreds of cavalry gathered together to launch a charge, and its power was indeed quite spectacular, and the tremors from the ground could be felt from a long distance away.However, Takahashi Minami just issued a very simple order to let a company that was originally on the right wing immediately join the defense on the left wing, so as to strengthen the ability to fire against the late golden cavalry attacking from this direction.
The defecation commanded by Sun Zhen happened to be on the front line, and the squad was formed into four rows of horizontal formations. Seven bursts of rifles could make their firepower output several times stronger than before. The previous battles have fully proved The huge lethality of this firepower advantage.Therefore, even though the golden cavalry came aggressively after this wave, and it was clear that they rushed over to fight for their lives, the soldiers' emotions were still relatively stable, maintaining their shooting postures and waiting for the enemy to enter the range.
As the commander, Sun Zhen stood beside the queue and was in charge of giving the order to fire. On his left side, there was a temporary shooting position built with earthen bags. Two snipers lay prone on this shooting position, one of them A gun, another person is holding a telescope as an assistant.Sun Zhen's position is only the platoon leader, and he doesn't have enough authority to command these snipers, so he only made one request, that is, let the snipers not shoot and kill the leader of the opponent prematurely, at least until they enter the special area. The battalion's rifles were within range, and they would fire when they were sure they would not turn around and run away.
Sun Zhen's request was quite reasonable, so the two snipers did not object.So Mutbu, who was originally at the forefront of the post-Golden Cavalry lineup, was lucky not to be killed by a sniper in the first place, and he didn't know that the Haihan Army deliberately let them charge so that they could attack at a relatively short distance. He used intensive firepower to quickly eliminate his troops.The rear golden cavalry was like a wave, relentlessly slapping towards Haihan's position.
(End of this chapter)
Gao Qiaonan knew that there must be a large number of cavalry in the city, and what he wanted to do was try to force these cavalry out, and then use long-range firepower to finish them off.Therefore, he was not in a hurry to launch a general attack on the fortress, but slowly exerted pressure, hoping to disrupt the position of the defenders in the city.Judging from the opponent's response to sending cavalry out of the city to make an assault, such oppressive tactics have indeed achieved certain results.The Hou Jin army obviously had no skills to deal with the powerful infantry of the Haihant Battalion, and they refused to give up this fortress, so they would naturally fall into a dilemma.
"Battalion Commander, since the Houjin army can't hold on, will they seal the gate with stones from the city?" The staff officer standing behind Gao Qiaonan raised a possibility.If the Hou Jin army sealed the city gate, it would be difficult for Haihan's frontal artillery attack to be effective. Even if these small-caliber artillery bombarded for several days and nights, it would be difficult to completely collapse the city wall.
Gao Qiaonan shook his head and said: "They probably didn't try so hard. Sealing the city gate is equivalent to cutting off a way out. This city only has two gates, the north and the south. If the south is sealed, then if the north is also blocked, the people in the city will be blocked." The cavalry has nothing to do but wait to die."
Gao Qiaonan still had a subtext that he didn't say, if the commander of the opponent is really so stupid, then the next thing will be easy to handle.The only thing Hai Han feared was the maneuverability of the Golden Cavalry. If the opponent stuck to the castle and gave up attacking, it would be tantamount to self-mutilation.Step by step, even if the opponent has a castle to defend, it is much easier for the Haihan army to deal with than cavalry.
Although the Special Operations Battalion had already won two battles in a row with the Houjin Cavalry, Takahashi Nan still did not dare to take it lightly. There are also Houjin ambush soldiers, and at the same time, they are also on guard against the Houjin cavalry in the city who will come out from the north gate and attack.
After making a perfect response, the artillery continued to launch shelling at the south gate of Zhongzuo City at a stable frequency.Although the shells still couldn't penetrate the city gate, the damage caused by each shelling to the city gate was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.The cracks on the door gradually expanded with the shelling, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before they were shattered.
Before the battle, Takahashi Minami didn't quite understand why the higher-ups didn't arrange heavy siege artillery in this part of the battle. Obviously, it didn't take so much effort to blast open the city gate.At first, he thought it might be due to the inconvenience of transportation and supplies, but it was only on the battlefield that he realized that this was actually closely related to Haihan's combat purpose.If heavy siege guns are used and the city gates are destroyed with one shot, the Houjin army in the city will inevitably lose their fighting spirit and disperse in a rush. planned.Although the use of small-caliber artillery requires more work, it has the effect of boiling frogs in warm water, making the opponent afraid that the city gate will be broken, but also reluctant to give up resistance. In this difficult situation, they lost the last chance to escape. good time.
The Houjin army in the city is currently in such a situation. If at the beginning of the war, Mutbu chose to let the best of the city go out and form a group to attack the advancing Haihan army formation, it may not be impossible. The power of a battle.Or, after realizing the difference in strength between the two sides, decisively sealing the south gate, leaving only a small number of infantry to stand firm in the city, and letting the cavalry go out of the city to support it is also a defensive plan.But because of the heavy losses in the previous confrontation, Mutbu felt fear, and chose to let all the remaining cavalry troops stay in the city, which happened to take advantage of the opponent's wishes.
Although Mutbu's hesitation was not too long, in fact, the Haihan army outside the city had already calmly deployed, and it was a bit late to respond now.The order he received was to stick to this place, so he didn't dare to give up the center left city, and the countermeasure he chose in the end had already fallen into the prediction of the Haihan army.
This time, Mutbu handed over the important task of city defense to his deputy, Doro, who led 500 people to stay in the city, while he himself led most of the remaining cavalry out of the city from the north gate, and then circled to the south of the city. Then fight with the Haihan army.Doing so was basically a desperate move. If the cavalry were defeated again, it would be basically impossible for the [-] infantry left behind in the city and other post-Jin civilians who had no combat effectiveness to escape from Zhongzuosuo City.
Of course, if he is defeated in the end, even if he can escape here by himself, it will be difficult for him to explain to his superiors after returning to the Golden State Guard City in the north, and he will probably be charged with "poor command". It may even affect Mutbu's tribe, so he must fight to the death on the battlefield, trying to repel Haihan's offensive.
"Doro, if I die in battle, try to take this dagger back for me and give it to my family." Mutbu untied a dagger from his waist and handed it to his deputy. He said solemnly: "My family The property shall be divided equally between the elder son and the younger son."
Mutbu's dagger is nothing special, it's just a sharp knife with horns. It has neither gem inlays nor gold and silver decorations on it. It is just a portable weapon that has followed him for many years.But he made such a commission, which already showed that he was extremely pessimistic about the current battle situation, and at the same time, he also expressed his determination to fight to the death to his deputy.Another purpose is to let Doro bring back the deeds of his heroic death in case of death in battle, so that at least he can change his family and tribe's life without being implicated.
Doro didn't dissuade Mutbu, but just took the dagger from him with a serious face.Slowly insert it into your belt.As a deputy, he understands the meaning of Mutbu's entrustment, which is actually a gold medal for avoiding death for him.If Mutbu died in battle outside the city, then in order to fulfill this commission, he must leave Lushunkou alive, so that he would not have to defend the city on the left.But this is equivalent to Mutbu entrusting his family and tribe to him, and this burden is not much easier than fighting to the death on the battlefield.
After the two completed the handover, they didn't dare to delay any longer.Doro led people to temporarily reinforce the crumbling city gate, while Mutbu hurriedly led the remaining hundreds of cavalry in the city out of the city from the north gate.
However, at this time, the Haihan cavalry's reconnaissance range has also included the north gate of Zhongzuo City. As soon as Mutbu led the team out of the city gate, he was spotted by the nearby Haihan scouts. A flare shot into the air.The signal bomb exploded after flying more than ten feet into the air, and the orange-red fireworks could be clearly seen from several kilometers away.
"Sure enough, he slipped out from the north!" Gao Qiaonan got the news quickly, and immediately adjusted the deployment accordingly.
When the pyrotechnic flare exploded in the air, Mutbu, who had just left the city, naturally saw it too.Although there were only a few Haihan cavalry wandering in the distance in his vision, he knew that this meant that his whereabouts and intentions had been exposed. The Haihan cavalry used the fireworks signal to send the news back to the position in the south of the city. The raid was completely hopeless.
"I didn't expect that this battle would be so passive!" Muteb was also quite helpless about the current battle situation. He thought that there was no problem with his response from the beginning of the battle, but the opponent's preparations were obviously more adequate. That terrible The infantry musket formation tactic is simply specially set up for the massacre of the Golden Cavalry.
Just now, after thinking for so long in the city, although Mutbu still couldn’t figure out why the Haihan musket could be fired continuously without reloading, he at least wanted to understand one thing. However, the sudden change of tactics this time is probably just to lure out the cavalry in the city and kill them cleanly.If it hadn't been for the recent addition of hundreds of cavalry, the consumption of the first two battles alone had indeed completely wiped out the cavalry troops deployed in Zhongzuo City in the past.
However, Haihan changed his previous combat strategy, preferring to fight head-on and destroy the rear golden cavalry. In Mutebu's view, there is only one reason for this kind of performance, that is, the Haihan people are not satisfied with more than a year of small troubles. , but is preparing to officially launch an offensive on the Lushunkou area of the Liaodong Peninsula, and plans to stop and take root here.
This is not good news for Hou Jin. After Haihan took root in Shandong, it has already caused a lot of trouble for Hou Jin. Well, I'm afraid it won't take too long for the ownership of Lushunkou to change hands.
Mutbu thought that even if the Haihan people wanted to do something about Lushunkou, they would probably wait until after the beginning of spring. He still had a few months to slowly make some arrangements here, but he didn't expect Haihan to rush At this time before winter, a decisive offensive was launched.Now it is definitely too late to ask for help from Jinzhou Wei. There are hundreds of miles to Jinzhou Wei, and it is difficult for a fast horse to go back and forth in a day.And looking at the non-stop offensive of the Haihan army, it is obvious that they do not intend to let this battle continue until nightfall.
Mutbu knew that Zhongzuo City would never survive until the reinforcements arrived, so he simply didn't have any hope for it. He led the army out of the city to meet the Haihan army, and he only planned to use the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and concentrate his resources The mobile power to make a last-ditch effort.It's just that as soon as he left the city, the enemy had already grasped his whereabouts. I'm afraid that the chance of winning this battle will drop by several percent.
But even so, Mutbu can only bite the bullet when it comes to guarding the soil.He ignored the Haihan cavalry slowly gathering in the distance, but led the team around the city to the south.He knew very well that there was nothing he could do with the Haihan cavalry at the moment, and the opponent did not intend to use the cavalry as the main force in the battle. It was obviously only used to guard the periphery and clean up the battlefield. Basically, there was no need to expect to be able to fight the opponent's cavalry head-on. There is a wave.But if his troops were in trouble, he knew that these Haihan cavalry would pounce on them like hungry wolves, just as they hunted and killed those scattered post-golden cavalry survivors before, killing them quickly and ruthlessly.
Soon Mutbu saw the Haihan position in the south of the city, and several artillery pieces were in the middle of the position, firing at the city gate one after another.On the periphery of the artillery position is a gun formation formed by Haihan infantry armed with live ammunition.This formation is much denser than the formation used to lure the enemy when the Haihan army marched towards the center left city, and it has basically returned to the linear formation that the Haihan army used to use before.Mutbu thought of the firepower output density shown by the opponent in the previous battle, and he really didn't have much confidence in the charge he was about to launch.
But he had no choice. If the Haihan army invaded Zhongzuo City, it would also mean the failure of Houjin in this area, so he might as well fight hard and try to kill more enemies.
Mutbu drew out his saber and raised it high above his head, and the hundreds of horsemen and horses behind him also immediately raised their weapons to show their momentum.Mutbu swung his saber forward, making a slashing gesture. Seeing this, the cavalry under his command immediately urged their horses forward and began to accelerate towards Haihan's position.
These hundreds of cavalry gathered together to launch a charge, and its power was indeed quite spectacular, and the tremors from the ground could be felt from a long distance away.However, Takahashi Minami just issued a very simple order to let a company that was originally on the right wing immediately join the defense on the left wing, so as to strengthen the ability to fire against the late golden cavalry attacking from this direction.
The defecation commanded by Sun Zhen happened to be on the front line, and the squad was formed into four rows of horizontal formations. Seven bursts of rifles could make their firepower output several times stronger than before. The previous battles have fully proved The huge lethality of this firepower advantage.Therefore, even though the golden cavalry came aggressively after this wave, and it was clear that they rushed over to fight for their lives, the soldiers' emotions were still relatively stable, maintaining their shooting postures and waiting for the enemy to enter the range.
As the commander, Sun Zhen stood beside the queue and was in charge of giving the order to fire. On his left side, there was a temporary shooting position built with earthen bags. Two snipers lay prone on this shooting position, one of them A gun, another person is holding a telescope as an assistant.Sun Zhen's position is only the platoon leader, and he doesn't have enough authority to command these snipers, so he only made one request, that is, let the snipers not shoot and kill the leader of the opponent prematurely, at least until they enter the special area. The battalion's rifles were within range, and they would fire when they were sure they would not turn around and run away.
Sun Zhen's request was quite reasonable, so the two snipers did not object.So Mutbu, who was originally at the forefront of the post-Golden Cavalry lineup, was lucky not to be killed by a sniper in the first place, and he didn't know that the Haihan Army deliberately let them charge so that they could attack at a relatively short distance. He used intensive firepower to quickly eliminate his troops.The rear golden cavalry was like a wave, relentlessly slapping towards Haihan's position.
(End of this chapter)