Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 844

The infantry of the Mughal Empire on the frontal battlefield stopped moving, but the soldiers of the Ming army near the coastline started to move.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw that almost an hour had passed, he immediately ordered the millions of troops from the Southeast Camp and Nanyang Camp to advance eastward, and ordered the soldiers of the Shenwu Camp to block the boundary river and complete the encirclement.

The reason why he waited for so long was to wait for the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to take their positions.

Because the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion blocked the boundary river is the key to this encirclement and annihilation battle.

If the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion ordered the Southeast Battalion and the Nanyang Battalion to advance eastward along the coastline before the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion were in place, it would definitely scare the snakes and make Ah San flee northward crazily.

At that time, even if ordinary infantry cannot escape, those high-caste officers and cavalry units with horses, including Shah Jahan, will definitely be able to escape.

His main target was these people, so naturally he couldn't let them escape.

Therefore, he waited for nearly an hour before ordering the encirclement.

At this time, the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and their horses had already started to land on the Spike warship.

The first batch to land was Sun Zushou and his nearly [-] veterans of the Shenji Battalion and [-] horses.

It's a pity that the space of the Spike warship is limited, and it is impossible to pull nearly [-] war horses all at once.

Sun Zushou only thought about it for a while, and then ordered decisively: "Yi Ming, Gong Ming, you command the rest of the soldiers to land, and I will lead [-] fine riders to cut off the pontoon bridge to prevent them from escaping on the pontoon bridge.

The remaining nearly [-] veterans wait for their mounts to arrive and let them rush to the pontoon bridge to support them.

Then, gather [-] cavalry first, led by Gong Ming, and rush to the pontoon bridge for support.

Yi Ming, you are in charge of bringing the remaining [-] cavalry to join us with artillery and supplies. "

When Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming heard the words, they hurriedly cupped their hands and said, "The general will understand."

Sun Zushou didn't say any more, he just waved his hand and said, "From the first team to the tenth team, copy guys, get on your horse, and follow me to cut off the pontoon bridge."

After finishing speaking, he got on his horse and galloped north along the river bank.

The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion also got on their horses without hesitation, and galloped away after him.

There are still some defensive forces on both sides of the boundary river, and of course Shah Jahan will not ignore his own rear.

However, he didn't have many people left behind, just a few thousand people.

These people are scattered on both sides of the hundreds of miles of boundary river, which is naturally very sparse.

Sun Zushou didn't care about it, and rushed northward with his people. When he saw the Mughal Empire guards, he shot a rain of arrows, directly shooting people into hedgehogs, without stopping.

They rushed all the way, and they rushed to the pontoon bridge in less than a quarter of an hour.

There are quite a lot of guards here, and there are more than a thousand people on both sides of the floating bridge.

Unfortunately, they are all infantry.

How could they stop the elite cavalry of the Ten Thousand Gods Battalion.

Sun Zushou waved his hand directly, and tens of thousands of sharp arrows covered them like dark clouds.

Immediately afterwards, he led his men and horses directly into their camp and slashed at them. After a while, thousands of Mughal Empire infantry on the north side of the pontoon bridge were killed by them.

Seeing this, the Mughal Empire infantry on the south side of the pontoon bridge were frightened and fled south frantically.

Sun Zushou didn't order anyone to chase after him either, he directly brought tens of thousands of horses to the floating bridge, waved his hands and said loudly: "Fire oil!"

"Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo," thousands of kerosene tanks were thrown onto the pontoon immediately.

There was a bang and clang, and the pontoon bridge was immediately drenched with kerosene.

Immediately afterwards, he waved his hand and said loudly: "Go to the battle axe!"

Hundreds of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion immediately got off their horses with their battle axes, surrounded more than a dozen waist-thick wooden stakes and slashed at them.

Soon, more than ten iron chains were cut off by them.

At this time, the pontoon still did not move, because there was still a thigh-thick wooden frame supporting it underneath.

Moreover, none of the wooden rafts above touched the water surface, and the river water could not wash away these wooden rafts.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Zushou said loudly: "Huozhezi!"

"Hoo hoo hoo", another pile of blown torches were thrown onto the pontoon bridge, and the whole pontoon bridge immediately burst into flames.

Sun Zushou raised his hand again and said loudly: "Array."

Tens of thousands of cavalry were lined up neatly behind him, facing the pontoon bridge, waiting in full force.

Of course they didn't wait for anything.

Because Shah Jahan's central army tent is about [-] miles away from here, it would take half an hour to go back and forth even with a fast horse.

If Shah Jahan didn't order to gather more than a hundred thousand horses to rush forward, who would dare to fight against their tens of thousands of cavalry.

At this time, Shah Jahan was sitting in the handsome tent with a puzzled face, frowning and thinking.

The fast horse he sent to investigate had already returned.

The front line seemed a bit abnormal, because the [-] artillerymen under Shahshuja and Aurangzeb were all smashed to death by the dense shells of the Ming army.

However, their remaining 60 pawns had already rushed up, as had the 40 pawns under Bakhsh.

Logically speaking, this is not considered a lost situation at all. Why did Captain White flee with his men?
He really couldn't figure it out.

So what if reinforcements from the Ming Empire arrive?
There are only a few hundred thousand horses, and they can rush to the other side of the river to fight with them?

There is no way, Ah San is such a fan of self-confidence.

If they don't rush up to them and beat them down, they don't know how powerful they are.

Shah Jahan was sitting there frowning and thinking, when a rush of horseshoes suddenly sounded.

Could it be that the front line sent someone to report the battle situation?
He has already ordered people to send orders to Shahshuja, Aurangzeb and Bakhsh. If there is any situation in the front line, he will send a fast horse to report immediately.

Question, the rapid sound of hooves seems to be coming from behind!
What is going on here?
Soon, an officer of a high caste walked into the commander's tent and said in a panic, "Khan, it's bad, the cavalry of the Ming army cut off the iron chain of the pontoon bridge, and set the whole pontoon bridge on fire."

Ah!
When Shah Jahan heard this, he was so frightened that he jumped up from the ground.

The cavalry of the Ming army really dared to cut him off!
He froze for a moment, then roared: "What's going on, how many Ming cavalrymen have come?"

The officer trembled in fright and said, "We don't know what's going on. The cavalry of the Wanming Army suddenly rushed over, and the camp on the north bank was trampled down by them in the blink of an eye. The chains were cut off by them, and the floating bridge was set alight by them immediately after."

Tens of thousands of cavalry?

Fortunately, there is still hope.

He immediately yelled to the outside: "Order, gather all the horses in the camp of the Chinese army and prepare to attack."

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly walked outside the tent, ordered someone to bring his war elephant, and climbed up.

It's no joke that the back road was cut off, no matter how confident he was, he didn't dare to take it seriously.

If the pontoon bridge could not be taken back or put up again, the Ming army would not even have to fight, just surround them like this, and the army of more than one million would starve to death!

He still knows this basic common sense.

Therefore, he is going to personally lead the army to recapture the pontoon bridge.

However, he made another common-sense mistake, that is, he should not ride a war elephant, let alone bring all the elephant soldiers with him.

The thousands of elephant soldiers under him are indeed the strongest. That's right, the problem is that the speed of the elephant soldiers is too slow, and the pontoon bridge is already on fire. Turned into ashes, how did the elephant soldiers cross the river?

He brought elephant soldiers with him, which simply slowed down the overall marching speed!
If he could immediately set off with his cavalry and infantry and run wildly over there, there might still be a little hope.

He hurried over with the elephant soldiers like this, it was really cold for the day lily.

Shenwuying is not like him, slow.

It took less than half an hour for Sun Zushou to light the pontoon bridge, and nearly [-] elite soldiers from the Shenwu Battalion rushed over. About an hour later, Qin Gongming also led [-] recruits from the Shenwu Battalion.

At this time, the wooden rafts on the pontoon bridge had already burned out, and as for the wooden frame below, Sun Zushou had gathered the power of a large number of war horses and dragged the iron chains to the left and right.

If the skill is good enough, it is estimated that you can use these rickety wooden frames to rush over.

Of course, no matter how good your skills are, tens of thousands of sharp arrows or even hundreds of thousands of sharp arrows will be shot into a sieve.

At this time, Sun Zushou actually didn't have to worry much about the Mughal Empire's army rushing over, because it was no problem for their more than 10 cavalry to block tens of thousands of horses with the help of the river.

And at this moment, most of the troops of the Mughal Empire are attacking the city wall. It is not bad if they can organize 30 to [-] horses to rush over.

If the Mughal Empire wants to gather millions of troops to rush over, it will take at least one day. By then, his camp will be built, the artillery will be set up, and with the follow-up 10 troops, the Mughal Even if the Er Empire really gathers millions of troops to charge towards him, he can still withstand it.

However, what is strange is that after such a long time, there is still no one on the other side of the river.

He held up the large aluminum binoculars and glanced for a while, thought for a while, and then ordered decisively: "The first team goes west, the second team goes east, and check along the river bank to see if the Mughal Empire army is here. Want to build the pontoon somewhere else.”

As a result, his worries were naturally superfluous. They were unresponsive and slow, and they didn't want to build a pontoon bridge elsewhere.

He waited for another two hours, and Qin Yiming brought the remaining men and horses to bring the cannons and food and supplies, and finally a large mass of men and horses appeared on the opposite bank.

Well, judging by his speed, it might take an hour to come over.

Sun Zushou thought about it carefully, and then gave the order: "Yi Ming, you will lead 10 people to retreat four li, line up the artillery in ten rows, and set up a camp around the artillery."

Qin Yiming hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The last general obeys orders."

After all, he took his 10 horse-drawn artillery and food and supplies to retreat.

Sun Zushou then ordered: "Gongming, send twenty teams to patrol the east and west sides in turn to prevent the enemy from building pontoon bridges in other places."

Qin Gongming hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The final general obeys orders."

The next step is to wait, anyway, he doesn't need to take the initiative to attack, as long as he can defend the boundary river.

His experience in guarding the boundary river is simply not too rich. Now that more than [-] troops have gathered, even if the Mughal Empire gathers all the people to rush towards him, he will not be afraid!

(End of this chapter)