Chapter 568: All-Out War
"Hahaha, it's just what I wanted. General Qin, I'll leave the defense of Ningcheng to you. General Qin will lead his troops out of the city right now. Guantong surrenders.
Qin Shan nodded.
The Beidi armies in the south and west all faced the palace reinforcements coming from Yanguan.
Therefore, the south and west walls do not need many soldiers to defend them at all.
Only a few thousand men can be left to garrison each city wall. The remaining soldiers can take the initiative to attack and cooperate with reinforcements to defeat the Beidi army in the south.
As for the Beidi army in the north, he will keep an eye on their movements.
Once he decides to besiege the reinforcements like the Beidi army in the south, he will again send some soldiers out of the city to help in the battle.
After Guan cleared the city wall, he immediately summoned the generals and issued the mission to fight out of the city.
In less than half an hour, 20,000 soldiers gathered at the south gate.
Under the leadership of the general, they walked out in an orderly manner.
When they arrived outside the door, they skillfully formed a hollow square formation.
In the military school, King Yan often mentioned this military formation.
Remind them that if they encounter a large number of enemy cavalry in the wild, they can prepare this formation to deal with it.
This phalanx was very effective in restraining cavalry.
Nowadays, soldiers are equipped with rifled guns, and this kind of phalanx will be more effective against cavalry.
Even the car formation is just a variant of the hollow square formation.
However, the vehicle formation uses vehicles as shields, so soldiers can be better protected during battles and reduce casualties.
And they can only use their bodies as a shield.
Within a quarter of an hour, 20,000 soldiers quickly formed ten hollow square formations.
These ten hollow square formations are well arranged and divided into three rows.
There are four hollow square arrays in the first row, two hollow square arrays in the second row, and four hollow square arrays in the third row.
Due to the special nature of the hollow phalanx, soldiers can shoot at the enemy in any direction.
Therefore, the first and third rows can change the front and rear rows according to the direction of the enemy's attack.
There are enemies in front of the first row, and the first row is the main offensive force.
The enemy attacks from behind, and the third row is the main force of the attack.
The two rows in the middle can be mobilized at any time according to battlefield conditions.
As soon as the 20,000 soldiers left the city, the Beidi army in Nancheng noticed it.
Nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses separated from the Beidi army and slowly came towards them, including Beidi cavalry.
Guantong is located in the center of the hollow square on the left side of the third row.
Looking at the Beidi soldiers rushing towards them, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
His purpose was to contain part of the Beidi army.
Now the effect is achieved.
As for the 50,000 Beidi troops who came over, he didn't take it seriously.
During this period, they defended the city wall, in order to use the advantage of the royal family's firearms to consume Beidi soldiers and horses as much as possible and reduce the casualties of their own soldiers.
It's not that they are afraid of Beidi and dare not fight head-on.
In his opinion, even if he and Qin Shan's 60,000 men fought against Beidi in the field, they would still be able to wipe out more than half of their troops.
Therefore, the 50,000 people sent by the Beidi army in the south were not in his eyes at all.
The Hollow Phalanx can easily defeat them.
Especially when defending the city, they found that the morale of the Beicheng army in the south was obviously lower than that of the Beidi army in the north.
This is partly because some of the Beidi army in the south are from Xiliang.
But in his opinion, it was more that they had been beaten to the point of losing their courage in the Battle of Yanguan.
When they besieged Ningcheng, they didn't get any advantage and suffered heavy losses.
While he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a huge roar from the artillery in the south, interspersed with the sound of rifle fire.
Obviously, the Yanguan reinforcements and the Beidi army are fighting.
Just as Guan Tong thought.
At this moment, circular formations of vehicles stopped five miles away from Ningcheng.
The Beidi soldiers held up their machetes and shouted "Anda" from their mouths as they rushed towards the car formation.
Facing the impact of the Beidi infantry, the artillerymen in the vehicle formation immediately pulled the artillery to the gap between the tanks, replaced it with grape bullets, and bombarded the Beidi soldiers.
Grape bullets wrapped with more than thirty iron balls flew out of the muzzle, and the outer linen cloth broke.
The iron ball turned into a hail of bullets and flew towards the Beidi soldiers who were rushing over.
"Puff, puff!" There was a sound of flesh being penetrated.
The Beidi soldiers who rushed in front fell one after another.
At the same time, the mortars continued to throw shotgun shells and lime bullets on the heads of the Beidi soldiers.
Under the bombardment of artillery and mortars, Beidi soldiers suffered casualties.
Lime bombs even fascinated the eyes of Beidi soldiers, causing confusion in the charging team.
The Beidi soldiers who were like headless flies kept bumping into other charging soldiers.
When these soldiers rushed within 200 meters, the musketeers pulled the trigger.
The dense bullets streaked through the air like locusts.
A large number of Beidi soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
"Hey! If you keep fighting like this, you will die."
In the Beidi army formation, Gu Le stomped his feet heavily.
Two Xiliang king's tents, 200,000 soldiers and horses.
First they attacked Yanguan and then Ningcheng. After two attacks, the two royal tents together had less than 60,000 troops.
Although the soldiers under Gurtu and Horqin also suffered heavy casualties, they could only retain half of their troops.
Wu Yan's eyes were red. All the Xiliang kings were Xiliang men, and there were no bastards mixed with the Dasong people.
Now, they are being slaughtered like animals.
He actually felt it.
Fighting with the soldiers and horses of the King of Yan is not called fighting, it is leading to death.
How can Xiliang soldiers with swords fight against Yanwang soldiers with muskets and artillery?
The most important thing is that each of the soldiers of the King of Yan is really strong and powerful.
Even in close combat, their soldiers can't gain any advantage.
Moreover, in the five or six days of siege, the only remaining artillery was destroyed in the exchange of fire with the artillery of the King of Yan.
They have no firearms and can only fight with their lives.
If there were only these few soldiers in Ningcheng, it would be fine.
They have a lot of people and can exchange their lives for them.
But now there are 50,000 soldiers of the King of Yan, and they seem to be more powerful in firearms than the soldiers of the King of Yan in the city. How can they fight!
"We have to fight even if we die. We are the King of Daring to Die. We can die, but we can't retreat. The Khan has handed this reinforcement to us, and we must stop it!" Gurtu shouted angrily.
He is more upset than Gule now.
The chariot formation of the King of Yan's troops has only been seen by the Black Iron King's Tent.
After the Black Iron King's Tent was defeated, he also mocked the Black Iron King's Tent for being useless.
But when he saw the chariot formation with his own eyes, he found it so difficult.
The cavalry sent out to harass the chariot formation had no way to deal with these chariots.
Two hundred meters away, they could not threaten the chariots at all.
Two hundred meters inside, they would be shot by the muskets of the King of Yan's soldiers.
Even if they managed to rush to the front of the chariot formation, the horses would be blocked by the chariots.
The cavalry could not hurt the soldiers in the chariot formation at all.
He was upset, and suddenly saw that the soldiers who were charging had collapsed.
A large number of soldiers fled back, including not only Xiliang soldiers, but also Northern Di soldiers.
Seeing this, Gurtu's heart skipped a beat.