NCCnovel Chapter 158 The First Battle is Different
Chapter 158 The First Battle is Different
Tuoba Youyou of the Xianbei tribe set out from Pingyang County with an army of 100,000. When they passed through Niangzi Pass, they suddenly had an idea.
"Tuoba is a complete winner. Do you think we should occupy Niangzi Pass? If these Central Plains people don't keep their word, we won't have a way back to the car."
"Chief, can such a small pass block the progress of my Tuoba family?"
Tuoba Youyou thought about it and agreed, but he still felt a little uneasy.
"You lead the vanguard in front, and I will command the central army. Proceed with caution and maintain contact with the central army."
"Don't worry, no one has ever defeated the Tuoba family's cavalry."
Tuoba Wansheng had a proud look on his face, as if he was invincible.
After the vanguard army went far away, the central army followed.
"Wang Bilie, you will temporarily take over the command of my central army. I have something to do in the back."
Wang Bilie was the Grand Marshal of the Tuoba family. He was good at observing mountains, rivers and streams, and was in charge of water conservancy and city defense construction. He was also a strategist during the march.
Records of the Grand Historian: The position of Sikong was a position that the Xianbei people continued to use in their political state.
Wang Bilie was a descendant of the Wang family of the Qin and Han dynasties. After defecting to the Xiongnu, he went to Tuoba Xianbei and became Sikong.
He changed his surname to Tuoba to show his true colors to the outside world, so Wang Bilie was also called Tuoba Bilie.
After Wang Bilie took the central army away, Tuoba Youyou took action and occupied Niangzi Pass, driving back the 2,000 Jin troops guarding the city.
After gaining control, Tuoba Youyou felt at ease to follow the army behind him.
As a result of this, a large gap was created between the rear army and the central army.
Ma Biao was getting a little impatient waiting.
"You said the vanguard has been gone for a long time, why hasn't the central army arrived yet?"
Yin Feng also felt strange and said carefully: "Captain Ma, don't you think the number of vanguards is a bit too many?"
"Is it a lot? Let me count. Hmm, three-five is fifteen, four-five..."
Ma Biao realized something was amiss. "You lead your troops to chase them. When Commander Cheng starts to attack, you should bite back from behind and prevent them from charging directly at the vanguard."
Oh my God, 70,000 people came over at once, how could Cheng Ziyun withstand it?
Ma Biao was panicked!
"Captain of the Third Battalion, take your cavalry and reinforce the Third Regiment. Do not charge unless absolutely necessary."
"Yes! Promise to complete the mission!"
Ma Damao is the special operations battalion and the darling of the independent regiment. It is a fully equipped cavalry battalion and a special operations battalion.
"The first and second battalions, hurry up and plant the mines. Plant them in all sorts of ways."
The fancy burying method is also called the flower character burying method. The first row looks a bit like the character "艹", and the back looks like the seal character "瑾". In a word, there should be no pattern for people to discover.
After burying more than a thousand mines in one breath, a spy came to report.
"The Xianbei behind us are coming, hide!"
With a loud noise, the people who buried the mines retreated and hid in the mountains and forests on both sides.
Tuoba Youyou marched forward with the rear army in big strides. As they were cavalry, their speed was quite fast.
After all, this road is the expressway leading to Jing County. In order to ambush these people, the road was continuously destroyed in some locations.
There are two roads, up and down.
One is a fast cement road. Although the road surface is bumpy, it can be seen that it has only been forcibly destroyed by some means recently.
Below is the original official road, a dirt road, which is even more bumpy.
Although the cement road was bumpy, it didn't matter to the cavalry.
"These Central Plains people are stupid. Do we cavalrymen care about this little pit?"
Tuoba Youyou discovered many such situations along the way and said mockingly.
Unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking, there were several earth-shaking explosions in the team ahead.
"What's going on? Is there thunder?"
After a while, someone came to report: "Captain, for some unknown reason, a thunderstorm appeared ahead, killing over a hundred of us."
"What? Han Lei, why is this happening?"
There were no landmines when tens of thousands of troops passed by before, so why did such a miracle occur when his army passed by?
"Boom...boom..."
The same sound was heard on the dirt road of the official highway below.
"Report... The great leader is dead, dead... many!"
"Go back and report it again. I was alive and well. When did I die?"
Just when Tuoba Youyou was wondering why the dry thunder appeared.
Wei Wu and Ma Yun set up infantry artillery and captured Niangzi Pass.
The huge sound of gunfire also attracted Tuoba Youyou's team.
"What's going on? Why is there such a loud noise back there?"
However, what Tuoba Youyou didn't know was that in the time he was thinking, the first and second regiments had occupied Niangzi Pass.
Although the Xianbei grassland warriors fought bravely, their defense was as weak as paper.
Especially under the blessing of guns and cannons, everyone was like a child who had never seen the world, hiding in the corner and crying in fear.
"Hurry up, tie up the prisoners and keep them under guard."
Wei Wu issued an order that after cleaning up the battlefield, they must remain stationed there.
"Second Regiment, assemble. We will press towards the Xianbei's rear guard."
The deduction before the battle was that the Xianbei troops would come to support after hearing the movement at Niangzi Pass, as this was their retreat.
Sure enough, Tuoba Youyou heard the noise behind him and immediately stopped moving forward.
"Send 5,000 people back to see what's going on."
Tuoba Youyou was very upset. When he was moving forward, he didn't see anything, more than 200 people died, and there was thunder behind him.
Five thousand Xianbei cavalry advanced towards Niangzi Pass.
Wei Wu and Ma Yun's two artillery companies fired their artillery at the approaching troops.
Ma Yun's Second Regiment had more than a thousand rifles and organized into two arrays of 500 each.
The Schrader Enfield rifle is rear-loaded, and the time it takes to change bullets is about three to five seconds. There is a regiment nearby to cooperate with it, and the number of bullets fired in a single shot is one thousand.
Faced with narrow roads, this firing rate is enough to single-handedly hold off the advancing cavalry.
Just as the 5,000 cavalrymen approached, the rifleman's commander shouted, "Team one, aim! Fire!"
As the command was sounded, guns spit out flames, then rang out in unison and soared into the sky...
The 12th Regiment fired a thousand rounds of ammunition for the first time, and at least 500 people were killed.
With so many people and horses falling down at once, the cavalry behind had to slow down, and the people began to gather in groups.
"put……"
"Bang~bang bang bang..." Another round of volleys.
"Puff, puff, puff..."
The sound of countless bullets entering bodies, some were horses, some were human...
"Artillery ready, fire..."
After the crowds gather, it is a good opportunity for infantry artillery.
A company of nine guns, two regimental companies' artillery fired together, causing huge explosions among the horses, which threw people off their horses and trampled on them.
At this time, the bullets were ruthlessly reaping lives.
After just a few rounds of gunfire and artillery attacks, only a few of the 5,000 people returned.
After learning about this situation, Tuoba Youyou quickly felt that something was wrong. It was dangerous to move forward, and there were not many ways to retreat. What should he do?
There are mountains on both sides, so riding a horse is definitely not an option.
Tuoba Youyou drew his sword and pointed it at the mountain to one side, saying, "They are watching us from the mountain. Let's get off our horses and go up there to catch the monkeys!"
After all, there were still 20,000 troops. After dismounting, the Xianbei soldiers still showed tenacious fighting spirit, shouting and waving their swords forward.
Ma Biao was surprised. These people were so smart that they didn’t even walk but went straight up the mountain. This was different from what he expected!
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