The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 890
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The sound of thick drums resounded over the wilderness, and the Ming army in the front line was in a commotion.

The sound of Huang Tian's battle drum not only made the Ming army look sideways, but also attracted the attention of the Han army.

The banners of the Ming army are almost all ocher yellow, only the Ling flag has other colors, but the banners that appear in the front of the Ming army are black.

"Stuck in the camp..."

Liu Xie's face froze, he recognized the identity of the army.

In the order of the Ming army, only the flags of the trapped camp have a black base.

The trapped camp is the most special army in the Ming army.

Different from the vigorous, high-spirited, and full of vitality shown by the rest of the Ming army, being trapped in the camp gives people the feeling of being extremely depressed and lifeless.

If the Ming army is described as an endless river, then being trapped in the camp is a pool of stagnant water that has not flowed for a hundred years.

Except for a few generals and academies, the soldiers trapped in the camp were prisoners serving sentences. During Gao Shun's long-term and rigorous training, they feared the army stick more than death.

There are very few recorded battle records in the trapped camp. The first battle was in the battle of Linping, and it became famous all over the world by defeating an enemy army several times its size by [-].

Since the establishment of the army, there have been [-] battles, [-] victories, no tie, no defeat.

In the front line of the Ming army, a heavily armored infantry soldier whose whole body was covered in black iron armor, even his hands, feet, neck, and face were wrapped in iron armor, stepped out of the Ming army's large formation slowly.

The black banner fluttered in the strong wind, and the breath of death permeated the air, making the already dark sky even more oppressive, making it difficult for people to breathe.

Xu An ordered the trapped camp to go out, so naturally he wouldn't let the trapped camp go out alone.

Not long after the trapped camp stepped out of the big formation, the two battalions of elite soldiers followed closely behind the trapped camp, one left and one right protecting the trapped camp's flanks.

The cavalry of the Ming army moved forward again, oppressing the movement space of the sentry cavalry of the Han army.

Xu An put down his whip, and under the guard of a group of generals, boarded a special watch car.

Although the watch cart is now parked on the flat ground, it is not an immovable platform. Although this watch cart is large, it can be pulled. There are dozens of mules and horses in front of it. These mules and horses are the watch carts. The source of power for the car.

The watch car is more than three feet high and very wide. There are three floors on the platform.

On the first floor, all the staff officers of the Staff Department stood. On the second floor, Xu An was located, with a good view and wide surroundings. The third floor was where the flag bearers stood.

The third floor is surrounded by high flags, and each flag corresponds to a battalion of soldiers.

Each command flag corresponds to a different order, attack, retreat, detour, and hold on. After tens of thousands of troops are deployed, the land stretches for several miles. Order to pass.

But at the critical moment, only by issuing military orders to the armies through the banner can there be time.

Jia Xu was the only person who followed Xu An to the platform of the watch car, and the rest of the generals were all listening to orders in front of the car.

On the platform of the watch car, Yan Zhong had been sitting on it and waiting for a long time.

In this battle, he also came all the way in a carriage, and did not stay in the stable rear.

Yan Zhong sat on the seat fixed on the platform, his complexion was much worse than when he first arrived in Qingzhou, and his eyes were full of tiredness.

"Sun Jing mobilized all the bed crossbows and throwing carts that could be mobilized. These weapons were placed in the outermost camps. There are more bed crossbows in Jiuli Mountain and more throwing carts in the Southwest Company."

"Sun Jing doesn't have the talent of his brother after all..."

Yan Zhong leaned back in his chair, his gaze didn't even look in the direction of the Han army.

"There are no generals in the Han army who can stand on their own."

As people get older, they tend to be nostalgic and recall the past.

He thought of Sun Jian who was Zeng Jin, and also remembered the time when he was in the Han court.

The Han court, which used to be like clouds of famous generals and rain of counselors, is now withered talents and hard to pick up.

Xu An stared at Yan Zhong's white hair and remained silent.

"Don't worry, Mr. Ming..."

Noticing Xu An's eyes, Yan Zhong smiled with a meaningless expression on his face.

"If you don't see the scene of Duke Ming liberating the world, I'm afraid it will be difficult to rest in peace."

"This battle is over, and the rest of the states and counties are just determined by the spread, and there will be no repetition."

"No more repetitions..."

Xu An's eyes narrowed slightly.

What Yan Zhong said is fixed and never repeated. In a sense, it is indeed true, but it is not comprehensive.

As long as this battle is won, regardless of Liu Xie's life or death, the Han court will fall apart, and it can be foreseen that wherever the call to arms goes, Natou will surrender.

But after victory and reunification, the real challenge really comes.

Different trends of thought converge, and new forces and old forces will have disputes because of their interests and positions.

All sorts of events will follow.

Those aristocratic families will not be willing to be destroyed, nor will they be willing to sink. Although they have had their minions pulled out, their bridles have been put on, and their scales have been removed.

But they still have a strong body, and their core has not changed.

All the obedience now is just a disguise, it's just a pretense.

They will accumulate strength in the dark, and will gradually unite.

There is no need for anyone to take the initiative to do anything, they will naturally unite because of various things that happen.

In today's Ming court, most of the political and people's livelihood systems are borrowed from the systems of the later Ming Dynasty, and the law is based on the Han law, which is modified on the basis of the two, so that the current Ming system and laws come into being.

In these political systems and laws, there are bound to be loopholes and places that can be exploited.

The current war is visible to the naked eye, with swords and swords, but future wars will be wars where no gunpowder smoke can be smelled and no swords can be seen.

Xu An closed his eyes and cleared his mind of other thoughts.

These things are all things to come later, and the war in front of us is the battlefield that is really going on.

Xu An stood on the platform of the watch car, looking at the Han army company camp in the distance. On the hilltop in the center of the rolling camp, a big fiery red banner was slowly flying above it.

He is well aware of the deployment of the Han army.

In Pengcheng, Liu Xie wanted to delay the incident, and slammed east and west, so as to support the Huaishui Navy to regain the front line of Huaishui.

The distribution of the Huai River Basin is very wide. Pengcheng, Lu County, Xiapi, and even the whole of Xuzhou are actually within the radiation range of the Huai River Basin. The naval warships of the Huai River enter the tributaries through the Huai River and reach every corner of Xuzhou. Threatening Qingzhou.

If Liu Xie really succeeded, the Ming army without the support of naval warships could only temporarily retreat to Xuzhou, guard the river, then build warships, start to think of other ways, and instead attack from the north of Yanzhou.

The naval force of the Han army on the Huai River was not weak, and the most important thing was the assistance of the eastern Jingzhou navy led by Huang Zu, which added a few points to the combat power.

Although the navy of the Ming Dynasty was powerful, the Huai River was an inland river, and most naval battlefields were actually not suitable for sailing on it, nor for river warfare.

At most, relying on Jiancheng to stick to it, just like this stuck Han Ting's neck and maintained a balance of power.

The same is true of Xu An's original intention.

He had already made a defensive plan, and dispatched troops to prepare to strengthen Xu Rong's army. He stood firmly on the front line of the Huai River to stabilize the battle, and then ordered Xu Rong to lead most of them south to force Liu Xie and Hanting.

But I didn't expect that Liu Xie would impulsively go to Yujia's army and personally lead the army to Pengcheng.

So Xu An overturned all previous plans and came up with a brand new plan.

The rapid defeat of Qingzhou and Xuzhou also caused many powerful families under the Han court to lose confidence in the Han family.

Although the conditions were harsh, Xu An's desk was still piled up like snowflakes with documents for surrender.

It can be said that perhaps even Liu Xie doesn't know half as much as Xu An about the Han court and the Han army.

"Send an order to He Man, let him lead the front army to fight steadily, gradually pull out the established camps, don't be greedy for success, and focus on stability in everything."

Strange to say, after the sound of the Ming army's offensive drums, the wind and snow between the sky and the earth gradually stopped, and everyone's sight gradually became clearer.

Although the falling snow had no effect on the battle, it still boosted the morale of the Ming army, and also hit the morale of the Han army to a certain extent.

Weather, location, and people.

The Han army originally occupied the right time and place, but as soon as the Ming army attacked, the wind and snow stopped, which really aroused everyone's involuntary thoughts.

Xu An's gaze did not stay on the advancing camp, but looked to the northwest, where Jiuli Mountain was located.

Sun Jing's defense, judging from the manpower, was actually a bit light-headed and heavy-footed.

The head is light, because the Han army is on Jiuli Mountain, there are only more than [-] Yanzhou soldiers led by Ji Ling, and more than a thousand village warriors on the top of the mountain.

Although sticking to the main points, it is actually not enough.

After all, the decisive battle location that Sun Jing arranged at the beginning was actually far away from Jiuli Mountain, and was set in the central wilderness of the eastern and western mountains.

Therefore, Jiuli Mountain is only for partial divisions to defend. Anyway, Pengcheng has tens of thousands of townspeople, and they can use refueling tactics to support Jiuli Mountain. There is no need to garrison heavy troops.

The belly is heavy, that is, the tens of thousands of troops inside and outside Pengcheng City. It seems that there are many people, but in fact it is a large burden. The five thousand imperial troops.

The foot is heavy, which refers to the company camp of the Southwest Han Army, the place where Liu Xiezhong Army set up, and this is also the decisive battle site set by the Han Army.

The first reason for Sun Jing to deploy defenses in this way is to ensure that Pengcheng is not lost and that her own side has stronger combat power.

The second is to rely on the Yanzhou army in Pengcheng and Jiulishan to create a threat in the north to further contain the Ming army, forcing Xu An not to attack with all his strength, and to concentrate his forces on one point.

I have to say that Sun Jing's ideas are good, but they are only limited to ideas.

Xu An continued to issue military orders, and the Ming troops in the formation stepped out of the formation one after another.

The tall counterweight catapult was slowly pushed in the direction of Pengcheng.

Xu An was very clear that the Han army camped on the western mountainous area had a clear view of everything in the wilderness, so he didn't have any cover, and he clearly wrote his intentions on his face.

After he saw Sun Jing's deployment and the deployment map of the Han army, he didn't have the idea of ​​concentrating his forces on one point.

Liu Xie wanted to play the game of playing tricks, and in this battle, Xu An also planned to teach Liu Xie what it means to be true and what it means to see is not necessarily believing.

Even if it is a bright card, the current Han court has no way to win.

……

Sun Jing stood on the watchtower, staring at the slowly approaching Ming army with an extremely embarrassed expression.

The Ming army launched a strangely shaped chariot, which looked like a large shield, but it had wheels so that the soldiers behind it could push it.

The soldiers of the Ming army hid behind the shield chariot and came slowly.

I don't know how the shield car was made, and even the crossbow gun was difficult to shoot through, causing no effective damage.

Even the stone bullets thrown by the chariots could not completely destroy the shield chariots in the Ming army.

"Turn on, get ready to shoot!!!"

As the Ming army approached, the Han army's Marquis on the wall of the Han army's barracks looked extremely ferocious. He shouted hoarsely, venting the anger in his heart.

Relying on the weird-looking shield car, the Ming army had already approached fifty steps away, but most of the crossbow spears they fired were blocked by the shield car, and panic appeared in his eyes.

The Ming army is like a monster, always able to invent new equipment and gain an advantage on the battlefield.

Under the camera, under the cover of the shield car, the sharp soldiers in the trapped camp and the left and right wings are already about to reach the camp of the Han army.

There was a sneer on Xu An's face. The improved shield car worked really well for the first time.

The shield car actually appeared once. At that time, it was simply reinforced and covered with animal skins. It was also used for siege, but the effect was not very good, and it could still be penetrated by crossbow spears.

But this time, the improved shield car has double decks on three sides of the carriage, the two decks are filled with sand, and the deck is covered with two layers of soaked quilts. Stone bullets thrown by some light catapults have no way to penetrate it.

"call out----"

When the ear-piercing sound sounded, under Xu An's camera, a large number of stone bullets swept through the air after attacking the Ming army's formation, and shot towards the Han army's camp.

The equipment for throwing stone bombs is the torsion catapult developed by the Ming army. Its size is much smaller than that of the counterweight catapult, and it is easy to transfer. It is very suitable for infantry support to have a catapult.

Although the power is much smaller than that of the counterweight catapult, it is completely sufficient for the camp of the Han army.

Under this round of stone-throwing attacks, there were already many gaps in the walls of several Han army camps.

Among them, there were three gaps in the camp in front of the trapped camp, and at this time the trapped camp was only forty steps away from the position of the Han army camp.

"Hey—" "Hey—" "Hey—"

The bowstring vibrated and fell into the camp. Many archers jumped out of the shield chariot, bent their bows and set up arrows, and poured arrow rain at the Han army in a hurry above the camp.

Every vibration of the bowstring can basically bring out a mournful howl. The bow skills of these soldiers trapped in the camp are not weak, on the contrary they are very precise.

In the camp of the Han army, those recruits of the Imperial Army who were well-armed and had undergone long-term training but did not actually go to the battlefield suffered a great loss from the Ming army's catapults and infantry archers.

The same situation is not only performed in the front of the trapped camp, but also in the attack routes of the Ming army in other places.

As soon as the battle started, the defense line of the Han army was already crumbling...

　I'm a bit stuck, and I'm a little confused about the final battle, and I don't know how to write it. This chapter is interspersed with the foreshadowing, which corresponds to the previous chapter of the Yingchuan family.

　　Don't panic, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer for all book lovers.

　　I would like to report on the recent situation. The work and rest have become normal. The quality of the article must be improved, and there will be updates. Thank you for your tolerance for my leave these days.

　　
　
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