Chapter 419 Target is Cavalry
Zhao Yulin said: All the soldiers who joined the Shenwei Army were his soldiers, and he did not want to see his brothers killing each other. Although there were more than 3,000 rebels, most of them were definitely coerced by the main culprit. If he appeared on the battlefield in person, he would definitely be able to divide and disintegrate the rebels to the greatest extent and reduce the killing as much as possible.
Also, why did the Mongolian army keep this rebel force in the southeast so close to us?
Logically, after this team was deployed, they should have transferred it to a more remote hinterland for reorganization, and then deployed it for use after strengthening control.
The current situation is a bit unreasonable.
So, he wanted to go to the front and take a look himself.
Cao Youliang said nonchalantly, "What's so good about that? He said in a nonchalant tone that placing the rebels in Dachuan is just a bait. He knows that we will not let the traitors go and will definitely wipe them out. Maybe he will send a large army from Suzhou to make us a dumpling."
I'm not afraid of him.
Yu Jie pulled Zhao Yulin to the operations room in the back hall, where a huge sand table of the surrounding terrain had been made according to the Shenwei Army's contour operation method.
He pointed to Dachuan Town and said that the area was half slope and half plain, and if the enemy cavalry wanted to reinforce, they could arrive in half an hour. He decided to use the red-coated cannons that had just been assigned by the Ministry of War to launch a surprise attack on the enemy and quickly wipe out the rebels.
When Zhao Yulin heard Yu Jie say that he wanted to use the red cannon, he thought of the last time they were attacked, when the enemy actually used hot air balloons to trick him.
He felt that this matter needed to be considered carefully.
He said: The current situation is that we are still reorganizing our army, half of the troops are not stable, and Dachuan is 80 miles deep behind the enemy, which is neither far nor close. If the surrounding enemy forces come to support us, we will be passive if we cannot take the city for a long time.
Zhao Yulin acted very cautiously and never took risks easily. It was not because the generals of the Shenwei Army had been around him for a long time and had seen immeasurable losses caused by mistakes. Most generals would look down on his fighting style of wearing spiked shoes and using a cane.
Yu Jie is one of them. He is the farthest away from the Shenwei Army and is still immersed in the traditional combat mode of the Song Army. He feels that he now has nearly 100,000 troops in his hands, and more than 20,000 of them have recently been equipped with the Shenbi crossbow. He has seen the powerful firing rate of the Shenbi crossbow and thinks that defeating Dachuan is a piece of cake.
In addition, the defection of his trusted general made him lose face and feel irritable. He vowed to destroy the rebels to establish his authority and insisted on starting the battle immediately.
Although Zhao Yulin thought it was a bit hasty and risky, he still followed the wishes of the front-line commander and agreed to fight. He also obeyed the advice of the generals and only showed up at the front line before leaving to ensure his safety.
The next day, Cao Youliang personally led the 10,000-man Jiangnan First Column, and the corps' air force and three red cannons followed all the way. They surrounded Dachuan by dusk.
Yu Jie followed Zhao Yulin's request and used mortars to fire propaganda bombs into the town to divide and disintegrate the rebels, hoping that some of them would defect and return to the Shenwei Army camp to reduce the killing.
The two of them even made a special trip to a bare hill southwest of the town to look out over the town. This place was about three miles away from the town. Zhao Yulin raised a telescope to look at Dachuan Town, hoping that the generals in the town would see it and know that he and Yu Jie had come to persuade them to return.
As expected, the two of them were looking at the town from the top of the hill. The rebel general in the town saw them and immediately reported it to the lieutenant general. The lieutenant general hurriedly climbed up the watchtower and searched carefully with a telescope, then immediately ordered his eight oxen and crossbows and catapults to provide covering fire.
When the rebels fled, they took with them the trebuchets, which were equipped with spring-assisted trebuchets, which were standard equipment for the Shenwei Army, and naturally had strong firepower. The cannons hit the top of the hill.
It was Mag's fault. Fortunately, there were many observers among Zhao Yulin's guards. When they saw the enemy's unusual movements, they immediately sounded the alarm and retreated. Then the two of them ran down the hill, and thunder bombs and arrows made of wooden sticks flew onto the hill behind them.
My god, the arrow made of wooden sticks was three or four feet long, with an iron cap on the head. Even with eight ox crossbows shooting at it, the thunder bomb explosion did not blow down the big wooden arrow stuck on the hilltop. If a person was shot, what would happen?
Fortunately, these bastards were not equipped with mortars.
Yu Jie was furious when he saw this. He covered his left shoulder, which had not yet healed, with his hand and ordered Cao Youliang to attack immediately and capture Dachuan for him.
Cao Youliang immediately dispatched his troops and launched a fierce attack from the west end of the town. Three red cannons were immediately put into use. Two rounds of artillery fire knocked down a thin section of the wall that was about ten feet long. A column then launched a charge.
However, the attacking force encountered stubborn resistance from the defenders in the town.
There were not only Eight Oxen and Crossbows in the town, but also a large number of Thunderbolt Chariots. This heavy weapon was the most imitated and equipped by the Mongolian army. With a fierce firing, they beat back Cao Youliang's attacking force.
Yu Jie and Cao Youliang were dumbfounded.
Didn’t the reconnaissance intelligence say that there are only 3,000 rebel troops from Yu Street here?
How come they had the Eight Oxen Crossbows and Thunderbolt Chariots, which were standard heavy weapons of the Mongolian Army? The rebel soldiers even used the bombs that the Mongolian Army ignited and threw.
Zhao Yulin was keenly aware that the enemy situation had changed, perhaps it was caused by inadequate reconnaissance. The enemy before him was definitely not just the rebels, but must be the main force of the Mongolian army.
At least, the Mongolian army supplied them with a large amount of weapons.
He immediately reminded Yu Jie to pay attention to changes in the enemy situation and sent out scouts to fully monitor the battlefield.
Cao Youliang refused to accept the defeat and continued his attack.
Zhao Yulin disagreed. It was already dark and the enemy's situation was unclear. The Shenwei Army would not make unnecessary sacrifices.
Yu Jie was very angry and told Zhao Yulin that he had dispatched 3,000 cavalrymen to chase the fleeing soldiers. If they pressed forward, they could easily wipe out the enemy without leaving a bone.
Zhao Yulin, however, believed that he should not be careless and should immediately send a message to the central army for support. He should implement a general mobilization according to the plan for a major battle, because the opportunity for a quick victory due to the surprise attack had been lost.
Although Yu Jie didn't understand, he still followed the order and made arrangements. The two of them retreated five miles to the home of a small landlord in Xiaoli Village to rest.
Seeing that Yu Jie was in a bad mood, Zhao Yulin told him that the enemy situation had changed too much. Although we have more than 10,000 people, the enemy can reinforce at any time, so it is not a battle that 10,000 people can fight.
Can General Yu accept this failure?
Yu Jie said angrily that there was no way he would fail. At dawn, he would personally lead the army to launch an attack, rush into the town and capture the rebel general alive.
Zhao Yulin waved his hands, called the military doctor to check his injuries, patted him on the shoulder and told him to rest well and go back to his room.
In a daze, the guard captain Ke Zhenxie entered the room and shouted: Master, get up quickly, the enemy cavalry is coming.
Damn it! Zhao Yulin stood up and saw Yu Jiedu entering the house.
He nervously reported that after repeated battles between the scouts and the Mongolian scouts, they had discovered Mongolian cavalry in Dawangzhuang in the east. There were no less than 5,000 Mongolian cavalrymen, who could attack here at any time.
He had already ordered the cavalry behind to come up and the third young master to retreat quickly.
Yu Jie advised Zhao Yulin to retreat to a safe place immediately.
Zhao Yulin became unhappy and asked him coldly where he had heard that Zhao Yulin was afraid of death and would run away as soon as he saw the enemy?
Hurry up and have Brother Youliang move to defend against the enemy cavalry. Tell the rear team to come up immediately to withstand the possible attack of the enemy cavalry. We must take Dachuan Town.
The rebel forces on the opposite side must be eliminated.
Seeing that Zhao Yulin was angry, Yu Jie hesitated for a moment, instructed the guards to keep the third young master safe, and then said goodbye in a hurry and left.
At this time, the guy finally understood that it was his own recklessness that caused the Shenwei Army to fall into the trap of the Mongolian Army and put the Third Young Master in danger.
Cao Youliang knew the strength of the enemy cavalry and quickly led his troops to retreat. What a joke, how could an infantry without any support fight against the same number of Mongolian cavalry?
It's just a way to die.
Zhao Yulin came to the Jinyin Mountain behind the village to check the terrain. It was called a mountain, but in fact it was just a small shallow hill. But it was better than leaving the team on a flat plain to be slaughtered.
The soldiers who arrived first had already started digging trenches and doing earthwork. He ordered the artillery to be transported to the highest point on the top of the mountain and deployed to use the artillery to curb the enemy's attack.
In Dachuan Town, Kouqing Buhua was drinking generously and praising the surrendered general.
Damn it, haha, it turns out it was this guy who came up with this bad idea.
Kouqiu Buhua had always wanted to seize the opportunity to give Zhao Yulin a hammer. The last time the Mongolian death squad attacked Yingzhou was his work. Although he succeeded, he lost a lot of troops and almost lost the elites that Hubili had trained with great effort, but he did not get any advantage.
This time, the mutiny of Yu Street's troops brought him a rebel army. He was worried that the rebels would pretend to surrender, so he immediately came up with a plan to use this rebel army to fish and catch the big fish of the Shenwei Army.
This guy was very bold. He secretly brought 3,000 main Mongolian troops to station in Dachuan, and lived and ate with the rebels. It was equivalent to coming to the front line to serve as a military supervisor.
Those surrendered generals were so excited to see that the Mongolian army valued them so much and were grateful.
Because of this guy Kousheng supervising the battle, the rebels and the Mongolian army fought extremely hard together, so the first round of attack by the Shenwei Army could be completely ignored. This gave the rebels fighting spirit, thinking that the reorganized Shenwei Army was still the same as their original soldiers, so they were not afraid.
They were drinking and having fun when the lieutenant in front of the tent came in to report that their cavalry hiding in Dahuangzhuang might have been exposed. There were many casualties in the fighting between the scouts of both sides in the middle of the night. The scouts of the Shenwei Army appeared in Dawangzhuang.
Koushengbuhua was angry at first, but immediately burst into laughter and said that the two armies were so close to each other that it was normal to be discovered by the little southern barbarians, so let the cavalry go and let the sabers of our grassland men see blood.
This was because Kou Buhua was too arrogant. He originally wanted to let the infantry in the town and the Shenwei Army fight to a stalemate, and then send out cavalry to attack the Shenwei Army's rear and win a great victory. However, he did not expect that the Shenwei Army quickly adjusted its deployment, so he had to hide this cavalry and wait for an opportunity.
However, he did not expect that this team was exposed in advance, so he had to order the cavalry to attack.
Therefore, although the Mongolian cavalry was deployed in large numbers, their target was the cavalry.
Because Cao Youliang led his troops to retreat quickly, the cavalry of the Shenwei Army risked their lives forward. Before the Mongolian army could get close to the Shenwei Army's infantry, they had already fought with the 3,000 cavalry of the Shenwei Army.
